Directions: In the following question, four 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 successive renunciations by Western nations in favor of the colored people have sprung not only from a timely revision of previously accepted political and social principles, but also from more profound causes having their origin in what Oswald Spengler has called “the decline of the West.” B. Anti-colonialism, the leveling of intellectual values from below, the making uniform of human conditions, and the equal value attributed arbitrarily to all individuals from the moment that they are labeled “men” - all these tendencies have joined to form a vast array in which the scientific progress of our civilization seems to have its counterpart a moral enfeeblement. C. Modern man, obliged to examine his conscience, finds that it is a bad one. D. He is ashamed of that of which he was once proud.