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D) the importance of friendship and tolerance in the midst of differences in taste and beliefs
From the text: "<span>At the termination of this sentence I started, and for a moment, paused; for it appeared to me (although I at once concluded that my excited fancy had deceived me) — </span><span>it appeared to me that, from some very remote portion of the mansion or of its vicinity, there came, indistinctly, to my ears, what might have been, in its exact similarity of character, the echo (but a stifled and dull one certainly) of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described."</span>
Society as in the art of speaking, working and making a living. Political systems.
The Renissance was a very rich period in time for the arts, where great paintings and poems and sculptures were made. There is not an as strong respect/ appreciation for the arts now.