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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?
A
“If [the family is the unit of the state]—why not run the state on that basis?”
B
“Our humanness is seen to lie not so much in what we are individually, as in our relations to one another.”
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—and are the richer.”
D
“That every child on earth shall have right conditions to make the best growth possible to it; that every citizen, from birth to death, shall have a chance to learn all he or she can [absorb], to develop every power that is in them.”