... his previous attitude of constantly searching for money and accumulating power. He states, "In the first place, I was remov'd from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying." Crusoe notes as a result of being in isolation, he no longer feels influenced by ... of God's grace attained through sincere belief in Jesus Christ." Others, contrastingly, see economics as playing a larger role in the novel and maintain that Defoe transmuted his economic th...

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