The Man-Made World: Or, Our Androcentric Culture is a 1911 nonfiction work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the text, the author emphasizes the importance of cultivating individuals rather than comparing them: __________
Which quotation from The Man-Made World: Or, Our Androcentric Culture most effectively illustrates the claim?
Explanation
Context: The claim says Gilman stresses "cultivating individuals rather than comparing them." The quotation must show both halves: rejecting comparison and favoring nurture.
Answer: C) "We do not sadly measure the cabbage-stalk by the corn-stalk, and praise the corn for getting ahead of the cabbage—nor incite the cabbage to [imitate] the corn. We nourish both, to its best growth—"
Why? "Do not... measure the cabbage-stalk by the corn-stalk" rejects comparison outright, and "We nourish both, to its best growth" is cultivation—the metaphor delivers the claim's two parts exactly.
Traps:
- A) → asks about running the state like a family; nothing about cultivation or comparison.
- B) → locates humanness in our relations to one another, not in nurturing individuals.
- D) → shows the cultivation half (right conditions, best growth) but never rejects comparing individuals.