Sentence Improvement

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

I speak of this school for reverence, for the good it has done, by the assertion of historic truth and of its legitimate authority over the minds of men.