THE PURITAN SPIRIT IN DEFOE'S TIMES

It is true,at least,,that the Puritan spirit as a religious concept finds full expression in the process of the primitive accumulationof capital in 18th—century England.It wasin this stage that Someremarkable characteristics of the development of capitalism came intobeing.what is important is that Defoe was clever at making the bestof the materials of age for his writing thus giving a panorama oflife in 18th—century England.