Select the correct answer.
In this line from Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, what element denotes that it is from the Revolutionary era?
There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that
condition, to the grave.
A. the mention of the grave
B. the mention of sense
C. the persuasion toward action
D. the mention of excitement
