The answer to this question is the third statement which is "innate ideas exist because we are all born with them". Although there are some philosophers who disagree with this concept. Innate ideas are ideas that are inborn. We have already this idea even we don't have experience.
The correct answer is the following: <em>option c. General assent is the concept that innate ideas exist because we are all born with them.</em> In philosophy, the concept of "general assent" is defined as an opinion and belief that some men have, that as humans, we are all born with some innate principles, notions, characters and ideas. The concept means that this ideas and principles are innate, as they are "stamped" in the mind and soul of men from the first moment of life, and therefore they are innate.
This passage is meant to invoke a sense of national unity towards a common enemy. Wars are often seen as uniting in the sense that they bring people in a nation together.
