Question

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Answer 1

Which of these excerpts is one of the main arguments in Jack London's "The Human Drift"?

A. The history of civilization is a history of wandering, sword in hand, in search of food.
B. As soon as [man's] evolution permitted, he made himself better devices for killing than the old natural ones of fang and claw.
C. And yet, despite this terrible roll of death, there are to-day alive on the planet a billion and three quarters of human beings.
D. And to this day, [man's] finest creative energy and technical skill are devoted to the same old task of making better and ever better killing weapons.

Answer 2

Quite a lot of questions, eh? I will be going offline in a few minutes, so you will need to ask someone else to help.

Answer 3

These are the ones I could not figure out so their are a lot more questions.

Answer 4

Where is the excerpt? I need it to figure out the argument.

Answer 5

The history of civilisation is a history of wandering, sword in hand, in search of food. In the misty younger world we catch glimpses of phantom races, rising, slaying, finding food, building rude civilisations, decaying, falling under the swords of stronger hands, and passing utterly away. Man, like any other animal, has roved over the earth seeking what he might devour; and not romance and adventure, but the hunger-need, has urged him on his vast adventures. Whether a BANKRUPTgentleman sailing to colonise Virginia or a lean Cantonese contracting to labour on the sugar plantations of Hawaii, in each case, gentleman and coolie, it is a desperate attempt to get something to eat, to get more to eat than he can get at home.

It has always been so, from the time of the first pre-human anthropoid crossing a mountain-divide in quest of better berry-bushes beyond, down to the latest Slovak, arriving on our shores to-day, to go to work in the coal-mines of Pennsylvania. These migratory movements of peoples have been called drifts, and the word is apposite. Unplanned, blind, automatic, spurred on by the pain of hunger, man has literally drifted his way around the planet. There have been drifts in the past, innumerable and forgotten, and so remote that no records have been left, or composed of such low-typed humans or pre-humans that they made no scratchings on stone or bone and left no monuments to show that they had been.

Answer 6

I'd go with A

Answer 7

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