Reread Frederick Law Olmstead's statement about New Orleans: "I doubt if there is a city in the world, where the resident population has been so divided in its origin, or where there is such a variety in the tastes, habits, manners, and moral codes of the citizens. Although this injures civic enterprise-which the peculiar situation of the city greatly demands to be directed to means of cleanliness, convenience, comfort, and health - it also gives a greater scope to the working of individual enterprise, taste, genius, and conscience; so that nowhere are the higher qualities of man - as displayed in generosity, hospitality, benevolence, and courage - better developed, or the lower qualities, likening him to a beast, less interfered with, by law or the action of public opinion." Based on this statement, how can Olmstead's opinion of New Orleans be summarized? a New Orleans is a city whose residents are more generous, noble, hospitable, and benevolent than people anywhere else.
b New Orleans is a city whose lack of legal regulation has harmful effects on its residents.
c New Orleans is a city where cleanliness, comfort, and health are more difficult to maintain than in most other cities.
d New Orleans is a city whose extreme diversity has both positive and negative effects.