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Art expert: If a painting is from the Hudson River School of the mid-nineteenth century United States, it will display a romantic reverence for landscape, portraying pastoral
scenes in which humans and nature coexist peacefully. The painting that was recently discovered in the attic of the old town hall dates from the 1850s and portrays a
pastoral landscape in which two couples are having a peaceful picnic. So the painting must be from the Hudson River School.
The critic’s argument is flawed in that it
Daniel: Historically, railroads substantially altered the course of the United States economy, enabling the country to enjoy unprecedented growth in the nineteenth century.
Robert: It's true that growth required cheap inland transportation, which railroads provided. But with government support similar to the massive land grants that subsidized rapid railroad expansion, canals and roads could have had the same effect.
Which of the following is most likely a point that Robert believes is at issue between Daniel and himself?
As a trained medical doctor and a novelist, playwright, and essayist by vocation, Afro-Colombian Manuel Zapata Olivella abandoned the practice of medicine to pursue his
literary career.