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The following piece of evidence supports the theme of "in the struggle against nature, nature will always win." “It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general

The following piece of evidence supports the theme of "in the struggle against nature, nature will always win."

“It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.” (Paragraph 3)

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b) False

I think it is “Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.”, because it shows that he let nature prevail against him and now he is going to die.

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