Introducing a Text in Wheels of Change, Part 1
Instruction Active
Making a Logical Prediction
Use details from the passage to write a short prediction
about what you will learn in Wheels of Change.
Wheels of Change looks at how the bicycle took America
by storm in the 1880s and '90s, and especially at the ways
in which it changed women's lives. It also explores the
bicycle culture of the era with short features, appearing
after each chapter, that highlight the impact of the two-
wheeler on everyday life.
-Introduction to Wheels of Change,
Sue Macy
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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.