... a Course Never Sailed Before (1724)(A New Voyage), in Richard Lansdown's Strangers in the South Pacific: Readings, will be used in an attempt to show that although these works are separated in time and style, Defoe continued to push his plan, a scheme that remained essentially the same for most of his creative life. Daniel Defoe was born the son of a London merchant in 1660. He was educated at a dissenter's school and 'as a child of his age' he was influenced by such philosophers as Locke, Hobbes and Bacon (Novak 1963: 2). Professor Novak claims 'Mary Astell accused him of being a follower of Hobbes' (1972: 193). As a London merchant Defoe was, undoubtable, one of Hobbes's selfish individuals, and as a journalist and pamphleteer he follows Bacons direction for the use of clear, unadorned prose style (Vickers 1996). Early in the extract from 'An essay on ...

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