Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental,
as though having lost the will or the vision to demand
that which is good? Such thinking, in the words of the
ecologist Paul Shepard, "idealizes life with only its head
out of water, inches above the limits of toleration of the
corruption of its own environment Why should we
tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid
surroundings, ... the noise of motors with just enough
relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a
world which is just not quite fatal?"
-Silent Spring,
Rachel Carson
Which best describes the appeals the writer uses in
this paragraph?
O The claim challenges readers to examine other
viable alternatives
O The writer's credibility is supported by citing an
expert opinion.
O The common sense used to form the argument
engages the audience.
O Pathos inspires readers to consider their own
apathy in the face of oppression

the answer is c? i just got it write

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.