On the ______ of the past, it can be handled in the same way that hard problems have been coped with before—piecemeal, pragmatically, by the dogged efforts of many people. A: terms B: evidences C: evidence D: term

Tocqueville decided to swear the oath of loyalty to the new Orleanist king in part ______ (he wanted to keep his position as magistrate), and in part pragmatically (he was convinced that the democratization of politics represented by the new regime was ______). A: (A) expediently...calamitous B: (B) opportunistically...inevitable C: (C) imprudently...circumspect D: (D) selflessly...idealistic E: (E) theoretically...negligible