Question

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

It is said that ideas are explosive and dangerous. To allow them unfettered freedom is, in fact, to invite disorder. But, to this position, there are at least two final answers. It is impossible to draw a line round dangerous ideas, and any attempt at their definition involves monstrous folly. If views, moreover, which imply disorder are able to disturb the foundations of the State; there is something supremely wrong with the governance of the State. For disorder is not a habit of mankind. We cling so eagerly to our accustomed ways that, as even Burke insisted; popular violence is always the outcome of a deep popular sense of wrong.

What is the central point that the passage emphasizes?

• A. It is unnecessary to define dangerous ideas
• B. Dangerous ideas are born out of the enjoyment of freedom
• C. A well-governed State is unaffected by dangerous ideas
• D. Dangerous ideas originate from man's pre-occupation with politics.

Answer 1

The correct option is C A well-governed State is unaffected by dangerous ideas

Option C is the correct answer. The passage has tried to emphasize the nature of disorder that tumbles over a state. Whatever may give birth to dangerous ideas, however they may be formed,if they are able to shake the foundations of a state, the validity of the state's governance would be questionable. A well-governed state would be unaffected by any kind of dangerous ideas.The statements of options A,B and D are not supported by the text, and thus, are incorrect.