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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the question mark.

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Remember the Riddler there is no such thing as a stupid question mark.. well allow us to revise that.

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come on guys all right check out the following passage we're just going to

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check this one out really quickly because it's tiny fun and while they

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clearly got paid by the word....

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okay moving on the chief purpose of the historical

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inquiry in paragraphs four through seven beginning line 26 is most likely to what?

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and here the potential answers..

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all right, well the great Henry Ford famously grumbled history is bunk in other words [Framed picture of Henry Ford]

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the past doesn't have much bearing on the present while the author begs to

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differ he states that scientific ratiocination a fancy way of saying

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observation and reasoning began as blind intellectual instinct or simple [A statue with vague facial features]

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observation and eventually came to be viewed as one continuous series of

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causes and effects the author that fashionable fellow with killer side burns [A cigarette and a man on fire running away]

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was a big proponent of Charles Darwin serious evolution but that doesn't mean [Man with Charles Darwin's head wearing a giant finger]

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he's basing the theory of evolution on how science has evolved which means A

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can't be the one, option C is referenced in the article in fact it says that

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human instinct is the root of historical inquiry but it's just that the root the [Lots of tree roots on a floor]

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start, the earliest stages where it all begins not the whole shebang, C is

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out of here. Once called natural history the research of organisms habits then

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came to be known as natural philosophy and has further progressed to merge with

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what we call physical science think of those classes that give us the shivers [girl shivering in class]

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just hearing the name like you know biophysics and biochemistry, well these

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advanced sciences however been developed in more recent years so the terms [students picking up jars in a laboratory]

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physical science and natural history didn't have exactly the same meaning

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they do today although, Ford is still Ford.

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Alright well E sounds pretty good but the author's point regarding historical

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inquiry is not about the series of causes and effects that is phenomena of [A hedgehog on a woods' floor]

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nature so we'll nicks E and then there's B this is the last level of our video

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game that is historical inquiry of the phenomena of nature again this is just [A mario videogame mushroom]

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one piece one part of the bigger picture so B is a no-go and that just leaves D as

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the answer in paragraph five our fabulously sideburn friend says it is

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only when the mind passes beyond this condition that it begins to evolve

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science so the knowledge of science that we know and love today is a result of [woman using a pipette in a lab]

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progressing from that blind intellectual instinct the viewing the phenomena of

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nature as what it is one continuous series of causes and effects we'll give old

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Henry Ford a pass on that whole history is bummed thing, after all he did also say

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failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently [Henry Ford wearing a pink bow tie and purple shades]

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