Part B Which excerpt from paragraph 1 best supports the answer to Part A, question 13? The irrationality of war almost all men: I say almost all; becn...e I have myself met with men who attempted seriously to maintain that it is an agreeable occupation and one of the chief means of human happiness. I must own that although I use the plural number here, I should have used the dual,had I been writing in Greek __ The first had his imagination so much in a blaze with heroic sentiments, with the "pride,pomp and circumstance of glorious war," that he did not advert to its miseries, as one dazzled with the pageantry of a magnificent funeral thinks not of the pangs of dissolution and the dismal corpse. The second had his attention so eagerly fixed on the advantage which accrued to his clan from "the trade of war," that he could think of it only as a good.

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Part B Which excerpt from paragraph 1 best supports the answer to Part A, question 13? The irrationality of war almost all men: I say almost all; becn...e I have myself met with men who attempted seriously to maintain that it is an agreeable occupation and one of the chief means of human happiness. I must own that although I use the plural number here, I should have used the dual,had I been writing in Greek __ The first had his imagination so much in a blaze with heroic sentiments, with the "pride,pomp and circumstance of glorious war," that he did not advert to its miseries, as one dazzled with the pageantry of a magnificent funeral thinks not of the pangs of dissolution and the dismal corpse. The second had his attention so eagerly fixed on the advantage which accrued to his clan from "the trade of war," that he could think of it only as a good.

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The excerpt "The irrationality of war is, I suppose, admitted by almost all men" best supports the answer to Part A, question 13, as it directly addresses the acknowledgement of war's irrationality by the majority of individuals.

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