Passage 1
Passage 2
This brief essay by author and college professor Charles
Augustus Eggert was published in California in 1913 as part
of the collection Why I Am Opposed to Socialism: Original
Papers by Leading Men and Women. Socialism' was a
popular and controversial theory at that time, four years
before the Russian Revolution. No government had yet tried
to put the theory of socialism into practice.
Why I Am Opposed to Socialism
by Charles Augustus Eggert
I am opposed to Socialism, first, because it is
not an inductively obtained system, but an
"ism that postulates qualities in the
individuality of a nation which no nation, or
community even, has yet developed to a
sufficiently high state to make this ism" fit to
be seriously tried.
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In Passage 1, what effect does Eggert achieve by
numbering each point of his argument?
He shows how each point against socialism is a
logical result of the previous one.
He orders each point to show the steps in a
process that can be followed to defeat socialism.
He ranks his arguments against socialism in order
of importance, from most to least important.
He conveys that many different arguments can be
presented against socialism.