Which sentence from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe best illustrates the concepts found in the Great Chain of Being?

A. [A]nd though, (Crusoe's father) said, he would not cease to pray for

me, yet he would venture to say to me that if I did take this foolish

step, God would not bless me (3).

B. I found also that the island (after the shipwreck] I was in was

barren, and, as I saw good reason to believe, uninhabited, except

by wild beasts, of whom, however, I saw none (46).

C. I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet, in time, by labour,

application, and contrivance, I found, at last, that I wanted nothing

but I could have made it, especially if I had had tools (00

D. I smiled to myself at the sight of this money. "O drug!" said I aloud,

"what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no, not the

taking off the ground; one of those knives is worth all this heap"

(50)