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The following text is adapted from Daniel Defoe's 1704 nonfiction book The Storm.

If I judge right, 'tis the duty of an historian to set everything in its own light, and to convey matter of fact upon its legitimate authority, and no other… that where a story is vouched to him with sufficient authority, he ought to give the world the special testimonial of its proper voucher, or else he is not just to the story: and where it comes without such sufficient authority, he ought to say so; otherwise he is not just to himself.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

• A.

  A historian seldom has every piece of information bearing on an event, so no one work of history should be taken as final.

• B.

  A historian ought to quote none but those figures whom the world at large holds credible.

• C.

  A historian ought to make plain how far each of the sources drawn on can be trusted.

• D.

  Because a historian cannot tell whose memory to rely on, eyewitness accounts of events are best avoided.