Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Every skull he picks up is an illustrious skull. This one was Leonardo. He invented the flying man, but the
flying man has not exactly served his inventor's purposes. We know that, mounted on his great swan (il
grande uccello sopra del dosso del suo magnio cecero) he has other tasks in our day than fetching snow
from the mountain peaks during the hot season to scatter it on the streets of towns. (*The Crisis of the Mind";
p. 5)
Which of the following best captures Valéry's point in his reference to Hamlet picking up Leonardo's skull?
To emphasize Leonardo's contribution to aviation
To emphasize the need the modern world has for someone of Leonardo's innovative genius.
To emphasize the death of the idea that intellectual achievement is always for the benefit of mankind.
To emphasize that the art rather than reason is best path forward for civilization