Thoreau mostly uses imagery to illustrate time in the excerpt. The second sentence is saying that he is in the midst of time/living, and he can "detect how shallow it is," meaning that he is aware that life is short and that the end is inevitable. Thoreau also describes time as being fleeting, but ever-present.
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Answer:
The author point out the ability of human beings to have feelings for each other through empathy which inturn create altruistic human behavior.
Explanation:
Empathy result in having compassion and understanding feelings of people who are afflicted and it's encourage others to render help. Empathy is a motivator of altruism. Altruism is a person's ego who has problems and anxieties and go out to render help to others who need it. Altruism born out of empathy is the true altruism because it is the desire to help people who are afflicted.
The correct answer to this question is letter "B. ideas that represented enlightened thinking." The term gothic represent to philosophers and artists such as michelangelo and leonardo da vinci is that about <span>ideas that represented enlightened thinking.</span>
