Question

Which choice provides the best evidence for the

Answer 1

Correct option is D. Lines 67-72 ("What . . . time").

The greatest evidence that Paine would counter Burke's assertion that society is a "partnership" between previous and present generations (lines 30-34) is found in lines 67–72. Paine argues that the living cannot know the opinions of the dead regarding current affairs.

Paine answers this question in these words: "What possible obligation, then, can exist between them; what rule or principle can be laid down, that two nonentities, the one out of existence, and the other not in, and who never can meet in this world, that the one should control the other to the end of time?"

The question is from following passage which is adapted from Thomas Paine, Rights of Man. Originally published in 1791 -

"Every age and generation must be as free to act for

itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which

preceded it. The vanity and presumption of

governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous

and insolent of all tyrannies.

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The circumstances of the world are continually

changing, and the opinions of men change also; and

as government is for the living, and not for the dead,

it is the living only that has any right in it. That

which may be thought right and found convenient in

one age, may be thought wrong and found

inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to

decide, the living, or the dead?"

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