Hi All,

Following is passage from Manhattan RC guide. Can someone please help clear the following doubt ?

Q) What is the purpose of the last line in the 3rd paragraph (Indeed, animals.....age) ?
As per strategy guide(4th edition, page#52) entire last para is for "support" for the idea that industrialization and urbanization lead to love for animals....can someone please tell why the last line is not the "implication" of this idea ?

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Over the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, educated Britons came to embrace the notion that animals must be treated humanely. By 1822 Parliament had outlawed certain forms of cruelty to domestic animals, and by 1824 reformers had founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

This growth in humane feelings was part of a broader embrace of compassionate ideals. One of the great movements of the age was abolitionalism, but there were many other such causes. In 1785 a Society for the Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Sums persuaded Parliament to limit that archaic punishment. There was also a Society for Bettering the condition of the poor, founded in 1796. A Philanthrophic Society founded in 1788 provided for abandoned children. Charity schools, schools of midwifery, and hospitals for the poor were being endowed. This growth in concern for human suffering encouraged reformers to reject animal suffering as well.

Industrialization and the growth of towns also contributed to the increase in concern for animals. The people who protested against cruelty to animals tended to be city folk who thought of animals as pets rather than as livestock. It was not just animals, but all of nature, that came to be seen differently as Britain industrialised. Nature was no longer a menacing force that had to be subdued, for society's "victory" over wilderness was conspicuous everywhere. A new sensibility, which viewed animals and wild nature as things to be respected and preserved, replaced the old adversarial relationship. Indeed, animals were to some extent romanticised as emblems of a bucolic, pre-industrial age.

An implication is a natural result that comes out of an idea. An implication can show "here's what can result ...". However, the last sentence does NOT propose something that can result from the idea. Instead, it's more of a summary sentence of the paragraph.

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Ben Ku
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ManhattanGMAT