Multiple choice

The real description would demand, of course, an exact measurement of the height of the mountain and the geological analysis of its structure, or an exact classification of the tree and the bird, with a complete description of their organs, and in each organ the various tissues have to be described, and in each tissue the various cells, and ______________________.

What is the most critical completion of the passage?

  1. this is called analytical enquiry

  2. the enquiry goes on

  3. the enquiry continues without an end in sight

  4. this is the basis of all scientific thinking

  5. the microscopist goes further and describes the structure of the cell
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Explanation

The passage progresses from the whole to the progressively smaller parts. The logical and progressive follow up to the inquiry into tissues would be an explanation of the cell structure. The body, the organs, the tissues, the cells, the cell structure - the progression continues for the microscopist.

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