Answer:
Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that
intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly
level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's
beginning but nearer its end.
Explanation:
"Many a singer far better than this absurd fop had been driven amid execration and abuse from the platform." Is the sentence that really shows mockery the best. While the author was praising him for what he was doing in the beginning it ends with such a mocking tone it changes the way you look at the rest of the reading.
L m f a o I can’t tell if this is an actual serious question
Parallelism implies the use of similar structure throughout the parts of either a sentence, or paragraph.
