Passages with Solved Precis People everywhere are deeply troubled by what seems like a fated and predetermined march towards even greater disaster. Many have come to feel that nothing can be done to avert the plunge towards ruin. They are mankind driven on by angry Gods, no longer master of its fate. I think this view is lazy and superstitious. The misfortunes of the human race, since, 1914, and those much...

Passages with Solved Precis Some Western writers, and some people in Russia too, argue that the best way to minimize the explosive quality of the present arms race is somehow to develop a stable balance of terror or deterrence. This means developing nuclear weapons and delivery systems so strong and so varied that no surprise attack could knock out the power to retaliate. I can see some force in this argument....

Passages with Solved Precis This great and inspiring language which is to play the most vital role in changing the present aggressive and militant outlook of the humanity, has an extremely bright and optimistic future. It is to be crowned as the “Language of humanity”. “The Voice of Human civilization” and the only Beacon, guiding the frustrated and dejected vessel of our civilization amid the peril full ocean of mass destruction,...

Passages with Solved Precis Who are really the happiest people? It is odd that we have no answer ready; for with most of us happiness is ‘our being’s end and aim’. We are sometimes in doubt whether our own balance is on the right side or the wrong. Looking back, I think I can separate the years when I was happy and those when I was unhappy. But perhaps at the...

Passages with Solved Precis The thief who neither knows nor admits that he is a thief seldom comes into court. And this is the most dangerous sort, because the market value of his stolen property cannot be economically assessed: he is the thief of his neighbour’s privacy, patience, time, energies, and of his very identity. How are such thefts licenced? By the general axiom that man, being a gregarious creature, enjoys...

Passages with Solved Precis It will be remarked that experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. There used to be a system of morals and metaphysics that was, specially known as the Experience Philosophy, but those who advanced it were grim rationalists and utilitarians who were already old in years, or more commonly old before their time. We all now know that experience...

Passages with Solved Precis From the very outset philosophy came forward as a science and as the only science. The highest and more certain knowledge was the aim which inspired its disciples. The fact that the question could be-raised as to whether it was a science at all can only be understood in the light of the development of the specially, modern sciences which came to fruition in the nineteenth century,...

Passages with Solved Precis To know what the Buddha actually taught, we must place ourselves in imagination of India in the sixth century B.C. Thinkers, like other people, are in no small measure rooted in time and place. The form in which they cast their ideas is largely moulded by the habits of thought and action which they find around them. Great minds make individual contributions of permanent value to the...