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which word is the best meaning of the underlined word in this paragraph? the night watchman made his rounds to check that all the doors in the office building were locked and secure. everything was quiet and he was sure that there was nothing left to examine. so he settled in at the front desk in the lobby with a book. but then he heard a loud crash by the elevators. a. read b. catch c. test d. watch

the underlined word is examine

John Stuart Mill is arguing against conformity. The human being, through its faculties of "perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference", only excercices those faculties when going against custom, against what is known as received wisdom. If someone merely follows the dictates of custom, then he is not thinking, or judging, or making moral choices: he is, so to speak, on autopilot, or simply following the herd. He is not asserting himself as an individual in full command of his humanity. In our daily lives we face many situations where we follow preestablished behaviors: at work, in the street, when dealing with our family. But it is only when we depart from what is expected from us that we become individuals, when we reject the well-worn path of custom and make personal choices.