Intellectuals at the End of the Nineteenth Century Increasingly Believed

question 15

Multiple Choice

Intellectuals at the end of the nineteenth century increasingly believed that

• A) though people were basically rational, their emotional side should not be neglected.
• B) reason exercised a very limited influence over human conduct.
• C) the extent to which a person can control his impulses and instinct should determine that person's position in society.
• D) evolution and the history of humanity showed that human beings are becoming increasingly rational.
• E) democracy and a rising standard of living made people into the rational beings the Enlightenment assumed they were.

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