Which detail best develops the central idea? A. The idea of a government with a definite constitution, which the rulers should always respect, and which should be an adequate protection to the people against oppression, had never occurred to any of the Asiatic nations. . . .

B. She was not wanting in intelligence, but it was the homely prudence of common life, the skill to adapt means to ends.

C. Of all the nations, she was the first to carry organization into every part of her government, and conduct everything by inexorable system and order.

D. The mission of Greece was in the domain of thought, to develop the intellectual capabilities of mankind.