They felt that they were dispossessing the Canaanites, and were thus working the Lord's will in preparing the land for a race which they believed was more truly His chosen people than was that nation which Joshua led across the Jordan.
Roosevelt discusses the settlers' belief in their divine mission to claim the land, likening it to biblical narratives.
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