Para Jumbles

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.

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. Theology does not deal with motion and is abstract and separable, for the Divine Substance is without either matter or motion. A. Likewise earth is not earth by reason of unqualified matter, [15] but by reason of dryness and weight, which are forms. B. In Physics, then, we are bound to use scientific, in Mathematics, systematical, in Theology, intellectual concepts; and in Theology we will not let ourselves be diverted to play with imaginations, but will simply apprehend that Form which is pure form and no image, which is very Being and the source of Being. C. Thus a statue is not a statue on account of the brass which is its matter, but on account of the form whereby the likeness of a living thing is impressed upon it: the brass itself is not brass because of the earth which is its matter, but because of its form. D. For everything owes its being to Form.

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. There are many who claim as theirs the dignity of the Christian religion; but that form of faith is valid and only valid which, both on account of the universal character of the rules and doctrines affirming its authority, and because the worship in which they are expressed has spread throughout the world, is called catholic or universal. A. In fact, the difference between three or more things lies in genus or species or number. Difference is the necessary correlative of sameness. Sameness is predicated in three ways. B. Therefore Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one God, not three Gods. The principle of this union is absence of difference: difference cannot be avoided by those who add to or take from the Unity, who break it up and convert it to Plurality. C. For the essence of plurality is otherness; apart from otherness plurality is unintelligible. D. The belief of this religion concerning the Unity of the Trinity is as follows: the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God.

Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Vast continents have been inundated; seas have usurped the dominion of the earth. At length retiring, these waters have left striking proofs of their presence; the marine vestiges present in the bowels of fertile lands we now inhabit - subterraneous fires have opened to themselves the most frightful volcanoes, frightful reminders of what might have been. B. But when history should be silent, would not our own reflection on what passes under our eyes be sufficient to convince us, that all parts of our globe have been, and following the course of things, will necessarily be again violently agitated in a state of conflagration? C. What, then, must have been the fears of man, who beheld the entire nature armed against his peace, menacing with destruction his very abode? D. The traditions and annals of all people recall, even at this day, melancholy events, physical disasters, dreadful catastrophes, which had the effect of spreading universal terror among our forefathers. E. The elements have thus, at various times, disputed among themselves the empire of our globe; evidenced by those vast heaps of wreck, those stupendous ruins spread over its surface.

Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Were the loosest and freest conversation to be transcribed, there would immediately be observed something which connected it in all its transitions. B. Or where this is wanting, the person who broke the thread of discourse might still inform you, that there had secretly revolved in his mind a succession of thought, which had gradually led him from the subject of conversation. C. In our more serious thinking or discourse this is so observable that any particular thought, which breaks in upon the regular tract or chain of ideas, is immediately remarked and rejected. D. And even in our wildest and most wandering reveries, nay in our very dreams, we shall find, if we reflect, that the imagination ran not altogether at adventures, but that there was still a connection upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other. E. It is evident that there is a principle of connection between the different thoughts or ideas of the mind, and that, in their appearance to the memory or imagination, they introduce each other with a certain degree of method and regularity.

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. Columella Well says that in reading the ancient writers we may find in them more to approve than to disapprove, however much our new science may lead us to differ from them in practice. A. The Romans achieved their results by thoroughness and patience. It was thus that they defeated Hannibal and it was thus that they built their farm houses and fences, cultivated their fields, their vineyards and their olive-yards, and bred and fed their live stock. B. Varro quotes one of their proverbs Romanus sedendo vincit, which illustrates my present point. C. The characteristics of the Roman methods of farm management, viewed in the light of the present state of the art in America, were thoroughness and patience. D. The Romans had learned many things which we are now learning again, such as green manuring with legumes, soiling, seed selection, the testing of soil for sourness, the preservation of the chemical content of manure and the composting of the rubbish of a farm, but they brought to their farming operations some thing more which we have not altogether learned--the character which made them a people of enduring achievement.

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. The birds are summoned to meet in general council. A. The new Utopia is duly constructed, and the daring plan to secure the sovereignty is in a fair way to succeed. B. They come flying up from all quarters of the heavens, and after a brief misunderstanding, during which they come near tearing the two human envoys to pieces, they listen to the exposition of the latter's plan. C. All steam of sacrifice will be prevented from rising to Olympus, and the Immortals will very soon be starved into an acceptance of any terms proposed. D. This is nothing less than the building of a new city, to be called Nephelococcygia, or Cloud-cuckoo-town, between earth and heaven, to be garrisoned and guarded by the birds in such a way as to intercept all communication of the gods with their worshippers on earth.

Directions: In the following question, some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. But in this, as in other sciences, when the truth has been reached it can generally be presented in a comparatively simple form, and the main positions can be justified even to the general reader by methods much less complicated, and much more lucid, than those originally followed by the investigators themselves. B. Historical criticism is a comparatively modern science, and in its application to this, as to other histories, it has made many false and uncertain steps. C. The process of disentangling the twisted skein of tradition is necessarily a very delicate and complicated one, and involves certain operations for which special scholarship is indispensable. D. The modern view has been reached by a mass of investigations and discussions of which no satisfactory general account has ever been laid before the English reader.

Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. They borrow all helps from poetry and eloquence, and treat their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections. B. The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves. C. As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours. D. They select the most striking observations and instances from common life; place opposite characters in a proper contrast; and alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happiness, direct our steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious examples. E. They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they hink, that they have fully attained the end of all their labours.

Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. They ravaged in Neustria as they ravaged in England; and a large part of the northern coast, including the mouth of the Seine, was given by Charles the Bald to Rolf or Rollo, one of their leaders, whose land became known as the Northman land, or Normandy. B. He and his family became Counts (i.e., judges and protectors) of Paris, and Dukes (or leaders) of the Franks. C. What most checked the ravages of these pirates was the resistance of Paris, a town which commanded the road along the river Seine; and it was in defending the city of Paris from the Northmen, that a warrior named Robert the Strong gained the trust and affection of the inhabitants of the Neustrian kingdom. D. Three generations of them were really great men-Robert the Strong, Odo, and Hugh the White; and when the descendants of Charles the Great had died out, a Duke of the Franks, Hugh Capet, was in 987 crowned King of the Franks. E. The great danger which this Neustrian kingdom had to meet came from the Northmen, or as they were called in England the Danes.

Directions: In the following question, some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. The most perfect character is supposed to lie between those extremes; retaining an equal ability and taste for books, company and business. B. In order to diffuse and cultivate so accomplished a character, nothing can be more useful than compositions of the easy style and manner which draw not too much from life, require no deep application or retreat to be comprehended and send back the student among mankind full of noble sentiments and wise precepts, applicable to every exigency of human life. C. It preserves in conversation that discernment and delicacy, which arise from polite letters; and in business, that probity and accuracy which are the natural result of a just philosophy. D. By means of such compositions, virtue becomes amiable, science agreeable, company instructive and retirement entertaining.

Directions: In the following question, some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Aside from being a juridical phenomenon, which it would be well to examine by itself, every crime is above all a natural and social phenomenon and should be studied primarily as such. B. When the German legislator concluded to make no distinction between incomplete and attempted crime and to recognise only the completed crime in his code of 1871, we witnessed the spectacle of Carrara praising that legislator for leaving that subtle distinction out of his code. C. Crime has its natural causes, which lie outside of that mathematical point called the free will of the criminal. D. We need not go through so hard a course of study merely for the purpose of walking over the razor edge of juristic definitions and to find out, for instance, that from the time Romagnosi made a distinction between incomplete and attempted crime rivers of ink have been spilled in the attempt to find the distinguishing elements of these two degrees of crime.

Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group.
B. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. C. On the other hand, there is the necessity that these immature members be not merely physically preserved in adequate numbers, but that they be initiated into the interests, purposes, information, skill, and practices of the mature members: otherwise the group will cease its characteristic life. D. Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. E. The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. F. On one hand, there is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members of the group -- its future sole representatives -- and the maturity of the adult members who possess the knowledge and customs of the group.

Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements. A. The immense preparations which so distant an enterprise required, the enormous quantities of provisions and ammunition collecting, the noise of arms, of carriages, and the march of such numbers of soldiers - the universal movement the majestic and terrible course of all the forces of the West against the East - every thing announced to Europe that her two colossuses were about to measure their strength with each other. B. But, to get within reach of Russia, it was necessary to go beyond Austria, to cross Prussia, and to march between Sweden and Turkey; an offensive alliance with these four powers was therefore indispensable. C. With feelings of this kind, her leader, influenced by his position, and urged on by his enterprising character, filled his imagination with the vast project of becoming the sole master of Europe, by overwhelming Russia, and wresting Poland from her dominion. D. He had so much difficulty in concealing this project that hints of it began to escape him in all directions. E. Austria was as much subject to the influence of Napoleon as Prussia was to his arms: to them he had only to declare his intentions; Austria voluntarily and eagerly entered into his plans, and Prussia he easily prevailed on to join him.

Directions: In the following question some statements have been provided. These statements form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these statements.

A. An illusion remains, and science, working in the name of reality, will gradually eliminate it, namely the illusion that man has established a permanent order of society. B. Gradually the anthropocentric illusion has been compelled to give way before the results of science. C. And this condition, instead of being a glorious but transitory stage, is supposed to be the end of the development of humanity, which is henceforth condemned not to perfect itself any more by further changes. D. We have seen that freedom of thought in science, literature and art, for which the bourgeoisie fought, triumphed over the tyranny of the mediaeval dogma. E. While the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions have been dispelled, the illusion of the immobility and eternity of classes still persists.