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and environmental noise that surrounds Crusoe. The reader should listen this way sincerely to be able to hear the basting of the spiritual dialogue of Crusoe that is mingled with his fascinating descriptions of as much as you go and mainly of as much as he is able to make. Because Robinson Crusoe is also the first metaphor that we find in the English literature of other many of the aspects that configure the origins of the modern world.
England is suffering during this period big transformations in the land of the thought. They are mainly to novelties of methodological type. The inductive method begun by sir Francis Bacon, the philosophical empiricism and the great faith in the reason dominates the panorama and they stimulate the scientific work that so much development will reach. All these philosophical contributions modify the human being cognitive relationship with the reality that he needs to know and to dominate. The new forms that govern this relationship will characterise above all for an intense faith in the precise observation, in the exhaustive description, in the mathematical demonstration. Galileo, Discard and Hobbes are responsible for having liquidated the medieval Aristotelian and scholastic authority when subjecting any belief to the rational scrutiny and when refusing to accept another truth that the one that can be discovered mathematically by means of the use of the inductive demonstrable methods. The vitality of the scientific impulse is very considerable, and in 1662 The Royal Society of London is founded and becomes the centre of the scientific studies in England. From it Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturales Principia Matematica in 1687 and locates the scientific knowledge in predominant and privileged position. In 1690, Locke in Essay Concerning Human Understanding applies the scientific methodology to the empiric study of the human mind. In it he suggests the mind is a form of the matter and that the human knowledge -rigidly limited - comes initially from the information that the senses receive and not from the innate ideas.
This new intellectual climate doesn't favour, as it is comprehensible, neither the religion and the poetry. Bacon, Locke and Newton feel little respect for the poetic arts and impose a certain suspicion for the imagination. In opinion of the Royal Society the poetry can collaborate a little in the task of the knowledge that should be governed rigorous and only for the reason. The instrument

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