Direction: Read the following passage and find out the inferences stated through the passage.

Statement: Until the 19th century, loneliness referred to action like journeying to a place outside a city and had less to do with feeling. Descriptions of loneliness and abandonment were used to generate fear of nonexistence within men, to be cut off from the world, and to God’s love.

Which of the following can be logically inferred from the statement above?