Which quotation from the interview best explains why ingersoll believes imagination is important to the well-being of society? "every beautiful thought is a teacher; every noble line speaks to the brain and heart." "the civilization of man depends upon the development, not only of the intellect, but of the imagination." "the stage should not be dogmatic; neither should its object be directly to enforce a moral." "the great thing for the drama to do, and the great thing it has done, and is doing, is to cultivate the imagination."

Read the excerpt from "save the redwoods."another, one of the finest in the grove, more than three hundred feet high, was skinned alive to a height of one hundred and sixteen feet from the ground and the bark sent to london to show how fine and big that calaveras tree was—as sensible a scheme as skinning our great men would be to prove their greatness. which  best  describes how the excerpt appeals to readers’ emotions? the excerpt provides facts about the tree, which impresses readers’ scientific minds. the excerpt describes how the tree traveled to london, which excites the readers’ sense of adventure. the excerpt compares the tree to a person, which makes readers feel sympathetic toward the tree. the excerpt explains how to skin a tree, which makes readers feel awed at the height of the tree.