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Directions (Q.81 − 84): Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. The last half my life has been lived in one of those painted epochs of human history during which the world is getting worse and past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted. It was thought that freedom and prosperity would spread gradually through out the world by orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice would continually diminish. Hardly anyone thought of the 19th century as a brief interlude between past and future barbarism.
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