They are probably the most important document in understanding history. Without writing we would have a difficult time understanding archeological data. Also journals give great detail about wars and other major conflicts that would otherwise be unknown to historians.
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Douglass learns the white man's power comes from the ability to prevent education to the slaves. The excerpt expresses Douglass' understanding of how education empowers the literate person and by remaining illiterate, unable to read, the master keeps his power against the slave.
Answer:
Each new step in science reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts as merely the various manifestations of a single principle.
Explanation:
Even though the only context we have is the sentence itself, we can safely choose number 2. This type of sentence is used when we wish to present contrasting ideas. There would be no reason, for example, for science to unify what is already harmonious, or to undermine what is already erroneous. Those ideas are redundant. It makes much more sense to say that science reconciles facts that are seemingly discordant. That is the wonder in science: to see different things as the manifestations of a single principle, which could seem, if science did not exist, impossible.
