This should be sent to me electronically no later than 10:00 A.M. Thursday. Type in your answers to the following questions. Limit your answers to the space in answer boxes. After typing your answers, use the “Submit” button to send this assignment to me. You will be also asked to print a copy of the answers for your own record. Warning -- If you go back to look at other pages while you are answer the questions below, you may lose what you have written.  In either Netscape or Internet Explorer you can easily avoid this problem by clicking on "File" in the upper left and then on "New" and finally on "Navigator Window" [Netscape] or "Window" [Internet Explorer].  You can go back to the other pages in this window without losing what you are writing in the "Assignment Window. Your Name: (required) Your Email: (required) I received no help from anyone on this assignment. (Check this box to acknowledge.) 1. Summarize in a few words what Condorcet thinks the future is going to be like. 2. Give three of his reasons for believing that history will take this course. Reason 1: Reason 2: Reason 3: 3. Read very carefully over the passages from the Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind, thinking carefully about Condorcet's assumption. Consider all the things that have to be true about the universe, human nature, etc. for his prophecy to be correct. Then state three of his most important assumptions, provide a brief passage in which the assumption is implicit, and briefly explain what makes you think that he must have been explicitly or implicitly making this assumption in this passage. A. Give the first of Condorcet's assumptions Type in a passage in which you belief this assumption is implicit. Explain in your own words why you think that he must have been making this assumption when he wrote this. B. Give the second of Condorcet's assumptions Type in a passage in which you belief this assumption is implicit. Explain in your own words why you think that he must have been making this assumption when he wrote this. C. Give the third of Condorcet's assumptions Type in a passage in which you belief this assumption is implicit. Explain in your own words why you think that he must have been making this assumption when he wrote this. 4. The pessimistic visions of a possible future in Mary Shelley's novel The Last Man, Lord Byron's poem Darkness, and Chapter XI of H.G. Wells, The Time Machine simultaneously borrow from the Christian apocalyptic tradition and depart from it. A. Give a short passage from any of these works in which reflections of the Christian apocalyptic tradition can be seen the choice of language, the assumptions, or the way of viewing time and human history. Explain briefly why you think that this passage may not have appeared – at least in this form – if Western culture had not been greatly influenced by apocalyptic thought. B. Give a short passage from a second work that demonstrates a departure from orthodox Christianity. Explain briefly why you think that this passage represents a break with traditional Christian attitudes, values, or assumption. or your answers