Abstract
n opening scene of first part of The FamiZy Instmcfor, father watches his young chid Tommy puzzle over relative spatial positions of heaven, earth, and self: I was wondring what Place that is. The father sits down with child and rather laboriously discusses eternal and temporal dwellings, divine creation and human obligation, and proper ways of inhabiting God's world. Defoe claims in introduction that the Way ... taken for this [work], is entirely New,' referring presumably to its dialogic form, its individualized characters, its sustained variety of different points of view, and its leisured, spacious narrati~e.~ But The Family
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