When I considered this a little, it followed necessarily that I was certainly in the wrong; that these people were not murderers, in the sense that I had before condemned them in my thoughts, any more than those Christians were murderers who often put to death the prisoners taken in battle; or more frequently, upon many occasions, put whole troops of men to the sword, without giving quarter, though they threw down their arms and submitted.
De ces réflexions il s'ensuivit nécessairement que j'étais injuste, et que ces peuples n'étaient pas plus des meurtriers dans le sens que je les avais d'abord condamnés en mon esprit, que ces Chrétiens qui souvent mettent à mort les prisonniers faits dans le combat, ou qui plus souvent encore passent sans quartier des armées entières au fil de l'épée, quoiqu'elles aient mis bas les armes et se soient soumises.