read the passage from "by the waters of babylon.” nevertheless, we make a beginning. it is not for the metal alone we go to the dead places now—there are the books and the writings. they are hard to learn. and the magic tools are broken—but we can look at them and wonder. at least, we make a beginning. and, when i am chief priest we shall go beyond the great river. we shall go to the place of the gods—the place newyork—not one man but a company. we shall look for the images of the gods and find the god ashing and the others—the gods lincoln and biltmore and moses. but they were men who built the city, not gods or demons. they were men. i remember the dead man's face. they were men who were here before us. we must build again. which quotation from the passage best supports the theme that humans have a natural desire to learn about the world? "they were men. i remember the dead man's face." "at least, we make a beginning." “and the magic tools are broken—but we can look at them and wonder.” “but they were men who built the city, not gods or demons.”

The answer to your question would be C: “And the magic tools are broken—but we can look at them and wonder.”

The quotation from the passage that best supports the theme that humans have a natural desire to learn about the world is “And the magic tools are broken—but we can look at them and wonder.”

This quotation shows that humans have an inherent thirst for knowledge, even when the instruments that allow us to access knowledge are not working. Moreover, one of the main themes that "By the Waters of Babylon" explores is knowledge. In the short story, the son of the priest has a natural desire for knowledge; however, when he arrives to the Place of the Gods, a forbidden territory, he realizes that knowledge can also be dangerous.

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