…if God much strong, much Might as the Devil, why God no kill the Devil, so make him no more do wicked…

THIS is the question posed by Man Friday, the ‘savage’ in Robinson Crusoe who is learning to become a Christian. The dialog about God quoted above is, of course, not a section that usual readers of this famous book would find the most engaging. We usually think of Daniel Defoe as someone who wrote an adventure of an Englishman stranded