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Directions: In the following questions read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. Most of us use the products of science-railways, aeroplaners, electricity, wireless and thousands of others-without thinking how they came into existence. We take them for granted, as if we were entitled to them as a matter of right. And we are very-proud of the fact that we live in an advanced age and are ourselves so very 'advanced.' Now, there is no doubt that our age is a very different one from previous ages and I think it is perfectly correct to say that it is far more advanced. But that is a different thing from saying that we as individuals or groups are more advanced. It would be the height of absurdity to say that because an engine-driver can run an engine and Plato or Socrates could not, the engine-driver is more advanced than, or is superior to Plato or Socrates. But it would be perfectly correct to say that the engine itself is a more advanced method of locomotion than Plato's chariot was.

In this passage, the author 'mentions Plato and/or Socrates to emphasise that

A) they are/were men of great scholarship

B) people as individuals in the modern age are not more advanced than their predecessors

C) the engine is a better mode of locomotion than Plato's chariot

D) Plato and Aristotle had greater respect for learning