30 points ! i was surprised to find corruption grown so high and so quick in that empire, by the force of luxury so lately introduced; which made me less wonder at many parallel cases in other countries, where vices of all kinds have reigned so much longer . . as every person called up made exactly the same appearance he had done in the world, it gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much the race of human kind was degenerate among us, within these hundred years past . . which excerpt from the passages above suggests a character vs. self conflict? i. “i was surprised to find corruption grown so high and so quick in that empire” ii. “the force of luxury so lately introduced” iii. “it gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much the race of human kind was degenerate among us” i only ii only i, ii, and iii i and iii