![]() ![]() But why then should women be denied the benefit of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, GOD Almighty would never have given them capacities for he made nothing needless. This is too evident to need any demonstration. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. He was also a pioneer of business journalism 5 and economic journalism. And ’tis manifest, that as the rational soul distinguishes us from brutes so education carries on the distinction, and makes some less brutish than others. Daniel Defoe (1659/1661 - 1731) was an English writer, journalist, and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe: of York, mariner (1719). Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred works 4 books, pamphlets, and journalson diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. She is Emeritus Professor of Scottish Literature at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. ![]() Her latest, The Gathering Night, was published in 2009. The Scottish novelist and academic MARGARET ELPHINSTONEs first novel was published in 1987. The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. Daniel Defoe (c.16591661) was an English writer best known now for his 'Robinson Crusoe'. ![]()
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