Which of the following excerpts from The American Crisis is an example of
an appeal to logos?
O A. Once more we are again collected and collecting. Our new army at
both ends of the continent is recruiting fast, and we shall be able
to open the next campaign with sixty thousand men, well armed
and clothed. This is our situation, and who will may know it.
O B. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and
the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is
dead.
C. I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret
opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give
up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupported to
perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid
the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom
could invent.
O D. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He
has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to
the care of devils; and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds
the King can look up to heaven for help against us: a common
murderer or highwayman has as good a pretense as he