Perceived Indian Aggression

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“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
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“The white man’s mullein soon reigned in Indian corn-fields, and sweet-scented English grasses clothed the new soil. Where, then, could the red man set his foot?”
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