Read the excerpt from "the most dangerous game." laughter shook the general. "how extraordinarily droll you are! " he said. "one does not expect nowadays to find a young man of the educated class, even in america, with such a naive, and, if i may say so, mid-victorian point of view. it's like finding a snuff-box in a limousine. ah, well, doubtless you had puritan ancestors. so many americans appear to have had. i'll wager you'll forget your notions when you go hunting with me. you've a genuine new thrill in store for you, mr. rainsford." " you, i'm a hunter, not a murderer." "dear me," said the general, quite unruffled, "again that unpleasant word. but i think i can show you that your scruples are quite ill founded." which detail best reveals that rainsford opposes zaroff’s idea of the ideal prey? "how extraordinarily droll you are! " he said. “you've a genuine new thrill in store for you, mr. rainsford.” " you, i'm a hunter, not a murderer." “but i think i can show you that your scruples are quite ill founded.”

Read the passage from chapter 17 of the prince. and of all princes, it is impossible for the new prince to avoid the imputation of cruelty, owing to new states being full of dangers. hence virgil, through the mouth of dido, excuses the inhumanity of her reign owing to its being new, saying: "res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt moliri, et late fines custode tueri."(*) nevertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable. . against my will, my fate a throne unsettled, and an infant state, bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, and guard with these severities my shores. what reasoning does machiavelli use in this passage? machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by first introducing the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with evidence. machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by starting with statistical evidence and then concluding that rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by first presenting an observed pattern of details and then concluding that new rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by starting with the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with short narratives.