Besides, the poor Indians would have had less reason to complain that the English took away their land, if they had received it by way of portion with their daughters. Had such affinities been contracted in the beginning, how much bloodshed had been prevented, and how populous would the country have been, and, consequently, how considerable? Nor would the shade of the skin have been any reproach at this day; for if a Moor may be washed white in three generations, surely an Indian might have been blanched in two.
Interesting, to say the least.
He was point on about how to integrate the two races. In many instances, the guy was thinking far beyond his time.
Today we debate clearing old growth dead fall and controlled burning to prevent major forest fires. He observed it as being the correct thing to do almost 300 years ago.