What type of irony is found in paragraph 5-6 of "the story of the hour" and explain how it is such?

In 1840, victor went to germany. he went there to

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.

It is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli what kind of reasoning does machiavelli use in this excerpt? he uses inductive reasoning because he offers statistics to prove his claim. he uses inductive reasoning because he observes a pattern and proves a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he relies on scientific experiments to prove a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he introduces a conclusion and proves it with evidence.