Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in a proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. In 1690, Sir William Temple wrote Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning. B. William Wotton responded to Temple’s charges in his reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning. C. Temple attacked the members of the Royal Society, rejected the doctrine of progress of moderns and supported the virtuosity and excellence of ancient learning. D. He praised the Moderns in most but not all branches of learning. E. Jonathan Swift, defending his patron Temple, satirized the conflict in his Tale of a Tub (1704), and more importantly, in The Battle of the Books (1704).
2. At a later date, Swift was to make an even more devastating attack on the Royal Society in Gulliver’s Travels, Book III.