Passages with Solved Precis There is in the mind of the average theatre-goer a prejudice against tragedy. “When I want to go to the theatre I want to see something cheerful. There is enough pain and tragedy in ordinary life, without showing it to us on the stage.” If he does not use this well tried formula, he will complain of a tragic play that it is “morbid” and “depressing”, so...

Passages with Solved Precis The necessity of planning for the economic development of an underdeveloped country is almost completely accepted by all thinking persons these days. The difference in opinion arises, however, with respect to the pattern that planning should take. The overwhelming prestige enjoyed by the Soviet Union as the first pioneer in the field of total planning in modern times gives a distorted perspective to thinking about ‘planning’ in...

Passages with Solved Precis The habit of reading is one of the greatest resources of mankind; and we enjoy reading books that belong to us much more than, if they are borrowed. A borrowed book is like a guest in the house; it must be treated with punctiliousness, with a certain considerate formality. You must see that it sustains no damage; it must not suffer while under your roof. You cannot...

Passages with Solved Precis Our policy is one of peaceful settlement of international disputes, though we are obliged to resist aggression when it occurs. Our resistance is to be carried out without or hatred. Our faith in ahimsa does not mean cowardly submission to aggression. It is resistance to evil without violence in our minds or hatred in our hearts. While non-violence does not mean surrender to evil, it also requires...

Passages with Solved Precis To deal with this problem it will be necessary to find ways of preventing an increase in world population. If this is to be done otherwise than by wars, pestilences, and famines, it will demand a powerful international authority. This authority should deal out the, world’s food to the various nations in proportion to their population at the time of the establishment of the authority. If any...

Passages with Solved Precis In the meantime, the impulse which Clive had given to the administration of Bengal was constantly becoming fainter and fainter. His policy was to a great extent abandoned; the abuses which he had suppressed began to revive; and at length the evils which a bad government had engendered were aggravated by one of those fearful visitations which the best government cannot avert. In the summer of 1770,...

Passages with Solved Precis Our aim is to train up human being for freedom, for justice for peace. How shall it be done? In his recent book, Which Way to Peace? Bertrand Russell has written a significant paragraph on this subject. ‘Schools’, he says, have very greatly improved during the present century, at any rate in the countries which have remained democratic. In the countries which have military dictatorship, including Russia,...

Passages with Solved Precis There will be those who say, who may try to insinuate, that we were opposed to a policy of peace. The answer is the same. We want peace with rights, with sovereignty and dignity. We want peace without renouncing our position as revolutionaries, without renouncing the revolution No one will doubt that when we fought the invaders at Playa Giron, when we fought those who bombed us,...