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Correct option is A. As used in line 22, "low" most nearly means petty In lines 17-29.
Burke makes the case in lines 17–29 that "subordinate contracts" are basically commercial agreements over traded items, as opposed to the state, which is not only "a partnership arrangement in a trade. . . or another low-key situation. . . but rather a collaboration in all of knowledge, all of art, all of morality, and all of perfection.
Burke is arguing that the state is not a contract made up of "low" or trivial interests in this context. Because "low" in this context does not signify weak, insufficient, or exhausted, choices B, C, and D are wrong.
This question is from following Passage which is adapted from Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France -
To avoid . . . the evils of inconstancy and
versatility, ten thousand times worse than those of
obstinacy and the blindest prejudice, we have
consecrated the state, that no man should approach
to look into its defects or corruptions but with due
caution; that he should never dream of beginning its
reformation by its subversion; that he should
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that universal kingdom are not morally at liberty at
their pleasure, and on their speculations of a
contingent improvement, wholly to separate and tear
asunder the bands of their subordinate community,
and to dissolve it into an unsocial, uncivil,
unconnected chaos of elementary principles.
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