[单项选择]It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes that study of Saint-Simonianism is necessary for historians of American feminism because such study______.


A. would clarify the ideological origins of those feminist ideas that influenced American feminism
B. would increase understanding of a movement that deeply influenced the utopian socialism of early American feminists
C. would focus attention on the most important aspect of Saint-Simonian thought before 1832
D. promises to offer insight into a movement that was a direct outgrowth of the Seneca Falls conference of 1848

[单项选择]It can be inferred from the passage that the author would MOST likely agree with which of the following statements concerning the scientific method


A. Scientific skepticism requires that no experiment should be considered valid if it produces experimental errors.
B. Theories should not be revised in any significant way in the absence of strong experimental evidence of a phenomenon they fail to explain.
C. Misinterpretations of experimental data always ensue from the "optimization" of experimental apparatus.
D. Sound experiments tend to produce experimental errors that are distributed in one direction or the other of the measurement scale, but not both.
E. (E) Large revisions in experimental physical theories should not occur simply in the face of "miracles".