Directions: In the following question, five statements are provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. The life of Aristotle coincides then with that confused and cheerless period when the proud Greek cities, that had once so valiantly defended their freedom against the countless hosts of Persia, now, through their inability to submerge their differences and co-operate with one another, were losing that freedom and sinking into the state of inglorious subjection that, but for a few short intervals, was to last until the nineteenth century.

B. For all the information we get from him, we might suppose the state of Greece in his time to be as usual, with the customary petty wrangling going on between the cities, and the imperial powers of Egypt, Persia, and Carthage lying off on the horizon, and no new cyclonic force crashing through the world, creating such havoc with the old order that nothing could ever bring it back.

C. Why, we wonder, this deliberate averting of the eyes, this refusal to speak of the earth-shaking revolution going on around him?

D. His discourse on politics has all to do with the management of the small, independent city-state, as if the day of that state were not already gone.

E. He lived in the thick of these events, knew personally some of the chief actors, left behind a mass of profoundly thoughtful writings on many topics, yet no word of comment on the fateful thing that was happening or on the men responsible for it.