Defoe

To answer the question I would have to say Daniel Defoe was right about most of his claims regarding trade but some stuff about England was hyped up to be more than what he said it was. Not everything he said was false but seemed to have been stretched here and there. Daniel Defoe stresses England’s trade system is one of the best which is very true. You can also see Defoe as someone who is very patriotic to their homeland which is why it would make sense that Defoe hyped up his sayings.

Daniel Defoe said that England was a great place to live and offered great trade. He said, “We are the greatest trading country in the world” and he was correct about that. England had a powerful trade system setup that was very good to them however he hyped it up big time. He also said, “The same trade that keeps our people at home is the cause of the living of the people here." This shows that their wealth and success of the people was from the trade system he speaks so greatly of.

Defoe believed that trade was a gentleman’s job and was considered a high class. He even spoke of how people would want to marry their daughters off to tradesmen because of how successful it was. I do not believe this at all. I believe that they are no different than a person who comes from a wealthy background or has a high status in some government.

Defoe made other claims as well that were not related to Trade but England itself. For example he said that the weather is better than most other places in the world. We all know this is not true and England had lots of trouble with farming due to the cold. He seems to compare England to other nations but shows no evidence for his beliefs in the success of other nations versus his own.

Defoe seemed a bit stubborn and bias of his own country England. He spoke and supported the Trade system of England and was very correct about what he spoke of. His side comments to hype up England were not completely true. A lot of his comparisons of other nations verses England had no evidence to support his views. England was different in its trade but was not as great as it was said to be.