What is the author trying to emphasize by calling cotton a king in paragraph 8?
a) the "king" idea of cotton celebrates how farms are passed down through different families.
b) the metaphor emphasizes how diverse georgia's natural resources are compared to other states.
c) the "kingliness" of cotton stresses how cotton is an extremely masculine crop for a person to raise.
d) the metaphor demonstrates that cotton is the most important and influential crop produced in the state of georgia.

It is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli what kind of reasoning does machiavelli use in this excerpt? he uses inductive reasoning because he offers statistics to prove his claim. he uses inductive reasoning because he observes a pattern and proves a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he relies on scientific experiments to prove a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he introduces a conclusion and proves it with evidence.