Carefully read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. I do not wish to suggest that because we were one nation we had no differences, but it is submitted that our leading men travelled throughout India either on foot or in bullock-carts. They learned one another's languages and there was no aloofness amongst them. What do you think could have been the intention of those farseeing ancestors of ours wh

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'Only you and I and others who consider ourselves civilized and superior persons imagine that we are many nations. It was after the advent of railways that we began to believe in distinctions, and you are at liberty now to say that it is through the railways that we are beginning to abolish those distinctions.' This shows how the author is critical of our way of thinking Therefore, in the passage, the author's attitude towards the railways is critical.So, the correct option is 'critical.'