Question

What assumption underlies this sentence from the excerpt?
Those who have quitted the world, and those who have not yet arrived at it, are as remote from each other as the utmost stretch of mortal imagination can conceive.

A. Family heritage is of no importance to the free citizens of Paine's modern world.

B. The young should not rule the old, and the old should not rule the young.

C. Ways of governing should be allowed to change with succeeding generations.

D. The wisdom of the past is an illusion that unjustly binds people in the present.