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The Publisher’s Introduction
Robinson Crusoe’s Preface
Introduction
Chapter One. Of Solitude
Chapter Two. An Essay Upon Honesty
Chapter Three. Of the Immorality of Conversation, and the Vulgar Errors of Behaviour
Chapter Four. An Essay on the Present State of Religion in the World
Chapter Five. Of Listening to the Voice of Providence
Chapter Six. Of the Proportion Between the Christian and Pagan World
Appendix
The publishing this extraordinary volume will appear to be no presumption, when it shall be remembered with what unexpected good and evil will the former volumes have been accepted in the world.
If the foundation has been so well laid, the structure cannot but be expected to bear a proportion; and while the parable has been so diverting, the moral must certainly be equally agreeable.
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In short, if no man can be called honest but he who is never overcome to fall into any breach of this rectitude of life, none but he who is sufficiently fortified against all possibility of being tempted by prospects, or driven by distress, to make any trespass upon his integrity – woe be unto me that write, and to most that read! where shall we find the honest man?
The Scripture is particularly expressive of this in the words, “The righteous man falleth seven times a day, and riseth again.” Why, this is very strange; if a man come to commit seven crimes in a day, that is, many, for the meaning is indefinite, can this be an honest man? What says the world of him? Hang him; he is a knave, a rascal, a dishonest fellow. This is the judgment of men; but in the judgment of Scripture this may be a righteous man.
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