Question

As used in line 50, "reason" most nearly means

Answer 1

Correct option is C. As used in line 50, "reason" most nearly means intellect.

Line from the passage -

Line 50: ...unless freedom strengthens her reason till she comprehends her duty, and sees in what manner it is connected with her real good?

This question is based on paragraph from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Originally published in 1792, which is given below -

" That half the human race is excluded by the other half from any participation in government; that they are native by birth but foreign by law in the very land Line where they were born; and that they are

5 property-owners yet have no direct influence or representation: are all political phenomena apparently impossible to explain on abstract

"Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of 45 knowledge and virtue; for truth must be common to all, or it will be inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practice.

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open before you when you observed, "that to see one half of the human race excluded by the other from all participation of government, was a political phenomenon that, according to abstract principles, it 65 was impossible to explain." If so, on what does your."

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