Click the highlighted selection from the text that provides the strongest evidence for the answer to Part A. (1) Reflect on things past, as wars, negotiations, factions, etc.: we enter so little into those interests that we wonder how men could possibly be so busy and concerned for things so transitory. (2) [L]ook on the present times, we find the same humor; yet wonder not at all. . . . (3) No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before. . . . (4) The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.