convinced thus of his divine right to indian lands, the puritan discovered in the indians themselves evidence of a satanic opposition to the very principle of divinity. In a world in which the divine plan was so clear, in a world through which the Bible would guide all men in all things, in a world in which civilization and the divinely illuminated human reason had to count for everything, the Indian might well be a terrifying anomaly, at best a symbol of what men might become if they lived far from God's word. Yet he also was a man who had to be brought to the civilized responsibilities of Christian Manhood, a wild man to be improved along