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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brie f passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage II

Gandhiji advises his followers to hate evil without hating evil-doer. It sounds an impossible thing, if he has made it as true as it can be, in his own life. Great as he is as a politician, as a leader of men, as a moral reformer, he is greater than all these as a man, because none of these aspects and activities limit his humanity. They are rather inspired and sustained by it. Though an incorrigible idealist and given to referring all conduct to certain pet formulae of his own, he is essentially a lover of men and not of mere ideas, which makes him so cautious and conservative in his revolutionary schemes. If he proposes an experiment for society, he must first subject himself to its ordeal. If he calls for a sacrifice, he must first pay its price himself. While many socialists wait for all to be deprived of their privileges before they would part with theirs, this man first renounces before he ventures to make any claims on renunciation of others.

The nearest meaning of the expression 'an incorrigible idealist' is

A) he was an orthodox idealist

B) his idealism needed no improvement

C) his idealism was useless

D) they did not compromise with his idealism