In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find the proper sequence.
S1: The weak have no place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery.
S6: This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.
P: They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.
Q: Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.
R: But they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.
S: There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us.
- AP Q R S
- BP R Q S
- CQ R S P
- DQ S R P
Explanation
Q states the theme (weakness leads to misery and death, echoing S1); S introduces the microbes surrounding us; R explains they cannot harm us unless we become weak; P concludes they get no hold on us until the mind is weakened — flowing into S6's "strength is life, weakness is death". The chain is Q-S-R-P. Hence (D).