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The energies of conquest were not merely more efficient technologies. The
European settlers used technological advantages for personal benefit. They viewed
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the land as a source of commodities as raw material waiting for transformation
心理学
Although the psychology of the settlers varied considerably, according to class,
religion, and nation of origin, most of them shared a set of beliefs that led to
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and they believed that they were to use their talents to the maximum to develop the
摂理
land, which *divine providence had placed in their hands. They saw the Native
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Americans as *heathens who had failed to utilize the New World, which to Europeans
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seemed a wilderness. The technological differences between Native and European
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o cultures appeared to demonstrate the superiority of the newcomers. Machines
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increasingly would become the measure of man, and the very energies of conquest
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seemed to justify the victory.
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