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dont trust anyone or else you will die
I believe that Dafoe in Robinson Crusoe believed that the best governors are the ones who work hard and follow honest practices when managing subjects.
This may not have been his thinking when he got stranded on the island initially since he was a slave-owner in Brazil but with time and reflection and his relation with his slave Friday I believe he came around to this idea.
You didn't provide the excerpt, so i can only say what he thought about it and then you can fit it in. Emerson was a transcendentalist and believed in the good found in men and had similar thoughts. He believed, like many others, that we are innately good but the society corrupts us, because it doesn't understand true and gentle souls.