Select the correct answer.
Read this sentence:
A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.
What is meant by "a disruption of the Federal Union" in this sentence?
A.
a joining of the northern states with the states that had seceded
B.
an attempt by the southern states to form their own government
C.
an interruption in the arguments between the North and the South
D.
secession, or the breaking away of southern states from the Answer:
Explanation:
A. would
B. though
C. could
D. should
E. can’t
Answer:
The correct answer is 'his intelligence' :)
Explanation:
In my opinion, the second main argument in "The Human Drift" is that human wandering across the planet, back and forth, has always been fueled by fear, while motivated by the search of food (as the first argument says). It is a primal fear that, if you don't eat, you will end up in someone else's stomach. Here is a nice excerpt that illustrates this argument: "Dominated by fear, and by their very fear accelerating their development, these early ancestors of ours, suffering hunger-pangs very like the ones we experience to-day, drifted on, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, wandering through thousand-year-long odysseys of screaming primordial savagery, until they left their skeletons in glacial gravels, some of them, and their bone-scratchings in cave-men's lairs."
