Which of the following statements from the passage most strongly indicates that the passage was written prior to the twenty-first century?
A.
"The regular holding of deliberative assemblies of a thousand members encounters the gravest difficulties in respect of room and distance. . . ."
B.
"The crowd . . . is . . . readily influenced by the eloquence of popular orators."
C.
"[T]hese same assemblies, if divided into small sections, . . . would be much more guarded in their assent."
D.
"The sovereign masses are incapable of undertaking the most necessary resolutions."