Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
… of humanity. Robinsonrediscovers moral values beyond the general skepticism of extreme rationalism. In A New Family Instructor (1727) 14 these principles will be imparted by a father as instructions to his son against the papist … wisdom may arise from a dialogue, as is the case with the conversational exchange between a father and his son in A New Family Instructor , or between Robinson and Friday, w hose relationship is much like that of ‘a Child to a Father’ (Defoe, Robinson Crusoe , 176). 14 . Daniel Defoe, A New Family Instructor. In Familiar Discourses between a Father and his Children (London: Warner, 1727). 15 . See Maximilian …
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