Objection 5:But what warrant have we to take that land, which is and has been of long time possessed of others, the sons of Adam?Answer: That which is common to all is proper to none. This savage people rule over many lands without title or property; for they enclose no ground, neither have they cattle to maintain it, but remove their dwellings as they have occasion, or as they can prevail against their neighbors. And why may not Christians have liberty to go and dwell amongst them in their waste lands and woods...Secondly, there is more than enough for them and us. Thirdly, God has consumed the natives with a miraculous plague...Fourthly, we shall come in with good leave of the natives.John Winthrop, General Considerations for the Plantation in New England with an Answer to Several Objections...,1629Which of the following European approaches to colonization is most directly reflected in the excerpt?

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