The Daniel Defoe Library

A Journal of the Plague Year Part 17


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In which the grievous toll of the plague is enumerated with particular attention to the districts most afflicted, and the inscrutable manner by which the infection silently spreads among the seemingly healthy is most fully described. The narrative further endeavours to reconcile the natural propagation of this distemper with divine providence, offering reflections on human behaviour and the limitations of contagion prevention amid such unseen perils.
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The Daniel Defoe LibraryBy Daniel Defoe