The four sentences (labelled 1,2,3 and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentence and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.
1. The trajectory of cheerfulness through the self is linked to the history of the word ‘cheer’ which comes from an Old French meaning ‘face’. 2. Translations of the Bible into vernacular languages, expanded the noun ‘cheer’ into the more abstract ‘cheerful-ness’, something that circulates as an emotional and social quality defining the self and a moral community. 3. When you take on a cheerful expression, no matter what the state of your soul, your cheerfulness moves into the self: the interior of the self is changed by the power of cheer. 4. People in the medieval ‘Canterbury Tales’ have a ‘piteous’ or a ‘sober’ cheer; ‘cheer’ is an expression and a body part, lying at the intersection of emotions and physiognomy.
3142
Sentence 3 opens the paragraph by stating the central idea: when you put on a cheerful expression, cheerfulness moves into the self and changes its interior.
Sentence 1 then explains this “trajectory of cheerfulness through the self” — the phrase picks up the idea of 3 — by linking it to the history of the word ‘cheer’, which comes from an Old French word meaning ‘face’. So 3 → 1.
Sentence 4 continues the word history chronologically: in the medieval ‘Canterbury Tales’, ‘cheer’ is still a face or expression (a ‘piteous’ or ‘sober’ cheer), a body part at the meeting point of emotion and physiognomy. So 1 → 4.
Sentence 2 closes the history: Bible translations into vernacular languages expanded the noun ‘cheer’ into the abstract ‘cheerful-ness’, a quality defining the self and a moral community — completing the movement from face to inner self announced in 3.
The sequence is therefore 3 → 1 → 4 → 2.
Hence, the answer is 3142.
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