Multiple choice

Directions: Starter to the following paragraph has been correctly provided in statement 1. However, the other sentences in the paragraph have been jumbled up. Rearrange the sentences, such as to make coherent sense.

I. If the supporters of what may be termed the naturalistic theory of politics, mean but to insist on the necessity of these three conditions; if they only mean that no government can permanently exist which does not fulfill the first and second conditions, and, in some considerable measure, the third; their doctrine, thus limited, is incontestable. A. But, considered practically, these alleged requisites of political institutions are merely so many facilities for realising the three conditions. B. Whatever they mean more than this appears to be untenable. C. There is a great quantity of mere sentimentality connected with these and similar phrases, over and above the amount of rational meaning contained in them. D. All that we are told about the necessity of an historical basis for institutions, of their being in harmony with the national usages and character, and the like, means either this, or nothing to the purpose.

  1. BDAC

  2. DBCA

  3. BDCA

  4. ABCD

  5. CBAD

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

'More than this appears to be untenable' in B links up directly with 'limited, is incontestable' in I. A logically concludes the argument. Hence, BDCA