The first one is an appeal to the reader's sense of logic and the second is an appeal to the readers emotions
Have a great base and a great subject
A figure of speech in which something is concrete is called a symbol
Valéry argues that Europe’s intellectual crisis is caused by the horrors of wartime and the awareness that civilization could die out and also the future could be worse than the past. The horrors of the Nazi invasions and occupations of European countries and atrocities they committed against the populace and disregard for culture and science prompted this thinking.
Answer:
Both are important of coarse. In different cases different persons are important in different ways. But from my point of view both are important
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