Read the passage from chapter 17 of The Prince. Among the wonderful deeds of Hannibal this one is
enumerated that having led an enormous army,
composed of many various races of men, to fight in
foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them
or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good
fortune. This arose from nothing else than his inhuman
cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him
revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but
without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient
to produce this effect. And short-sighted writers admire
his deeds from one point of view and from another
condemn the principal cause of them.
What kind of evidence does Machiavelli use in this
passage to explain Hannibal's effectiveness?
O empirical evidence in the form of observation
O logical evidence in the form of inductive reasoning
O anecdotal evidence in the form of historical
examples
logical evidence in the form of deductive reasoning