Read this excerpt from the adventures of robinson crusoe: but how just has it been! and how should all men reflect that, when they compare their present conditions with others that are worse, heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felicity by their experience. i say, how just has it been that the truly solitary life i reflected on, in an island of mere desolation, should be my lot, who had so often unjustly compared it with the life which i then led, in which, had i continued, i had, in all probability, been exceeding prosperous and rich. which words from this excerpt best convey its tone?