No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898How does H. G. Wells create suspense in the opening paragraph of The War of the Worlds?A.By explaining how ruthless the Martians are and telling the reader exactly what they will doB.By allowing the reader to believe that all of the characters in the story will die at the endC.By informing the reader that the narrator will survive the terrifying events of the storyD.By having the narrator recall the story's past events and giving hints about what happenedSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Read this excerpt from H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds:No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.Which words best describe the tone of this passage?A.Excited and emotionalB.SatiricalC.Calm and matter-of-factD.Light-hearted

Friedrich Neitzsche and the Counter-Enlightenment challenged the concept of man as a rational being and advocated that man as having to adopt a scientific approach to life.Question 12Select one:TrueFalse

By the early nineteenth century, philosophers like physician Erasmus Darwin and chemist Humphry Davy, both well known to Mary Shelley, pointed the way to mastery of the physical universe. Discoveries about the human body and the natural world promised the dawn of a new age of medical power, when such things as reanimation of dead tissue and the end of death and disease seemed within reach. Passage: The modern masters promise very little. . . . but these philosophers. . . have indeed performed miracles. . . . They have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they cancommand the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows. –Professor Waldman to his class at the University of Ingolstadt, Germany 15. Based on the events in the story, what can you infer about Shelly’s attitude regarding scientific technology? What warning, if any, is she giving us?

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:● None of us perceives the world as it 'really is'.● The 18th - century philosopher Immanuel Kant distinguished between noumena (things-in-themselves) and phenomena (things as they appear to observers).● And what we perceive when we perceive phenomena is as much about us, and the spin we put on reality and our interaction with it, as it is about the world itself.● This distinction between the world we perceive and the world in itself underpins the entire sub-field of philosophy known as phenomenology.● Our lesson here can be: we view the world through a filter.27Mark for ReviewABCThe student wants to present his conclusions on the philosophical concept of phenomenology. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?AImmanuel Kant is the father of the philosophical concept of phenomenology.BJust as no two individuals think alike, they also don't perceive alike.CWe don't think of the world as it is; we think of it as it should be.DWe can't but look at the world with colored glasses.