2. "If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,/ Or walk with Kings nor lose the common touch,"
How does the author use figurative language in the sentence to change the tone of the passage?
A to highlight the importance of getting to know important leaders
B. to emphasize the value of being friends with everyone
C. to illustrate the different kinds of friends one can have
D. to emphasize how hard it is to meet new people

Feldman reaches the conclusion that most people are honest without receiving an incentive by

studying a counterclaim about morality and arriving at a broad generalization.

Explanation:

A researcher can reach a conclusion that most people are honest after studying a counterclaim about morality.  He can then arrive at a broad generalization.

A counterclaim is the opposite of an argument, or simply, the opposing argument.  A counterclaim research is one undertaken to establish that the opposite of a research situation prevails.  It is a claim made against a situation or an established position in order to rebut the claimed position.

In this instance, Glaucon had taken a position that no man could resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed or dictated.  For Feldman to contradict this claim, with a conclusion that 87% of the time, a man could resist the temptation of evil even if he knew his acts could not be witnessed or dictated because he had become invisible, it means that he had researched the counterclaim.