“As a matter of practical policy, the annihilation of the Pequots can be condemned only by those who read history so incorrectly as to suppose that savages, whose business is to torture and slay, can always be dealt with according to the methods in use between civilized peoples,” he continued. Actually, it was a forward-looking act: “The world is so made that it is only in that way that the higher races have been able to preserve themselves and carry on their progressive work.”