Suetonius says:
Coming up with his troops on the banks of the Rubicon, he halted for a while, and, revolving in his mind the importance of the step he was on the point of taking, he turned to those about him and said, "We may still retreat; but if we pass this little bridge, nothing is left for us but to fight it out in arms."
What is the purpose of this paragraph that Twain uses at the beginning of his essay?
A) It provides emotional appeals to sway his readers.
B) It provides logical evidence to support his thesis.
C) It provides a false report of the historical events.
D) It provides credibility for Twain so that readers will believe him.
