" However, neither process nor project will go as smoothly as the colonists hope… at some deeper (mostly unacknowledged) level, there will be growing worry that the process might reverse itself—so as to make the currents of change run the opposite way. Instead of their civilizing the wilderness (and its savage inhabitants), the wilderness might change, might uncivilize, them. This they will feel an appalling prospect, a nightmare to resist and suppress by every means possible. "

― , The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America