"Complicate" = "elucidate the complexity of"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> Indian savagery

But even the most um-conservative of historians admit that the
savagery of the Indians was reactive, in contrast to the savagery of
the colonists, which was proactive.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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