Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?
Answer & explanation
Answer: (d) Diverse natural wants forced man towards social system
Nature made man's wants greater than his individual powers; no one can meet his wants without society, and those wants 'impel the whole of them into society'. So it is man's natural wants that drove him into social life.
- ✗ (a) Diversity in human society is not discussed.
- ✗ (b) It is the individual, not society, that cannot meet its wants alone.
- ✗ (c) It only echoes the premise 'nature created him for social life'; it misses why man became social, which is the passage's point.
- ✓ (d) 'Those wants, acting upon every individual, impel the whole of them into society'.
Remember · An inference goes beyond a restated premise; pick the option that captures the cause-and-effect the passage builds.
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