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The following text is adapted from Matthew Arnold's 1869 nonfiction book Culture and Anarchy.

The Times [a British newspaper], replying to some foreign strictures on the dress, looks, and behaviour of the English abroad, urges that the English ideal is that every one should be free to do and to look just as he likes. But culture indefatigably tries, not to make what each raw person may like, the rule by which he fashions himself; but to draw ever nearer to a sense of what is indeed beautiful, graceful, and becoming, and to get the raw person to like that.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

• A.

  It makes a claim about one of the principal effects of culture.

• B.

  It asserts that what is beautiful is a matter of objective truth rather than subjective perception.

• C.

  It implies that opinions regarding culture evolve over time.

• D.

  It explains differences in matters of taste between the English and others.