Read the excerpt from william faulkner's nobel prize acceptance speech. . the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. which best describes the meaning of the term “universal truths”? childhood ideals that are forgotten as people mature the artistic integrity of a dedicated writer or poet feelings and ideas that can be understood by everyone the reality that the cold war will lead to human destruction

feelings and ideas that can be understood by everyone

Explanation:

Universal truths or universal topics, are topics or issues that are closely related to the human existence, and because of that every human can understand and relate to, life, all humans that can read are alive, honor, all societies deal with honor, love, every human has the need and right to love and to be loved, so universal truths are topics that every human can relate to.

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war