Which sentence in the excerpt best indicates that the writer is addressing a large audience?
All Things Considered
by G. K. Chesterton (adapted excerpt)


Anybody reading these words, and anybody who heard them, will certainly feel that there is in them a great deal of truth, as well as a great deal of geniality. But along with that truth and with that geniality there is a streak of that erroneous type of optimism, which is founded on the fallacy of which I have spoken above.Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that these faults are absent. Are we without the fault because we have the opposite virtue? Or are we without the fault because we have the opposite fault? It is a good thing assuredly, to be innocent of any excess; but let us be sure that we are not innocent of excess merely by being guilty of defect. Is it really true that our English political satire is so moderate because it is so magnanimous, so forgiving, so saintly?


Available choices:

A.) But along with that truth and with that geniality there is a streak of that erroneous type of optimism, which is founded on the fallacy of which I have spoken above.
B.) Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that these faults are absent.
C.) Are we without the fault because we have the opposite virtue?
D.) It is a good thing assuredly, to be innocent of any excess; but let us be sure that we are not innocent of excess merely by being guilty of defect.