Had to look for the missing details and here is my answer.
The passage is actually taken from Robert Owen's "A New View of Society" and according to this passage, the theory that was rejected by Karl Marx is the <span>Laissez-faire economics. Hope this answer helps.</span>
The answer is C. The church was able to function without persecution from the government
The paraphrase of the passage is:
“When we,re carried past them some injured men with greyish
and wounded faces, and sight combined in that hopeless beseeching for help from
the sky which comes with superior pain, the knight in the mud viewed carefully,
and every now and then requested of the bearers an account of the event.”
Answer: your answer would be by birth
Its c "why should noy man obey his parents, who are the source of his birth and who are living gods"