Select the correct text in the passage. Which two sentences in this excerpt from Jack London's "The Human Drift" express the main argument of the exc
It has always been so, from the time of the first pre-human anthropoid crossing a mountain-divide in quest of bet
down to the latest Slovak, arriving on our shores to-day, to go to work in the coal-mines of Pennsylvania. These m
have been called drifts, and the word is apposite. Unplanned, blind, automatic, spurred on by the pain of hunger,
way around the planet. There have been drifts in the past, Innumerable and forgotten, and so remote that no rec
composed of such low-typed humans or pre-humans that they made no scratchings on stone or bone and left no
had been
These early drifts we conjecture and know must have occurred, just as we know that the first upright-walking bru
kin of the quadrumana through having developed "a pair of great toes out of two opposable thumbs." Dominate
accelerating their development, these early ancestors of ours, suffering hunger-pangs very like the ones we exper
hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, wandering through thousand-year-long odysseys of screaming
they left their skeletons in glacial gravels, some of them, and their bone-scratchings in cave-men's lalrs.
There have been drifts from east to west and west to east, from north to south and back again, drifts that have cr
drifts colliding and recoiling and caroming off in new directions. From Central Europe the Aryans have drifted Into
the Turanians have drifted across Europe,