Montague have considered that his government was as brutal against its enemies as the tribes of cannibals that the Portuguese explorers have found in their journeys to the New World. He perceived that torturing and killing your "neighbor" (other European nations) or fellow countryman in the name of piety or religion was a barbaric, nonsensical way of resolving conflicts, and it also served as evidence that French society had become corrupt and pretentious. The author concluded that, even with all its flaws, Westerners, "salvages" from the New World or even the enemies they faced are very similar because he believes that every human being shared same foibles, savagery, and miscalculation.