🔴 📖 🇬🇧 **Daniel Defoe’s journeys of the mind**

_“In a succession of savage heroic couplets, Defoe, a staunch supporter of William III, railed against xenophobic opponents of the Dutch-born king. At the same time, he scoffed at the myth of a pure ‘English’ race – one that was composed of Romans, Gauls, Saxons, Danes, Normans, Picts and Scots. ‘Fate jumbled them together, God knows how / Whate’re they were, they’re True-Born English now.’”_

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