Fully Solved Precis Exercise The career of a civil servant is not one which appeals to the man of ambition, in the popular sense of the term. The majority of men, at any rate, compromise in their choice of career between ambition and security. Reasonable — some say unreasonable — security the civil servant certainly has. He is spared the kind of anxiety which too often becomes the destroyer of contentment...

Fully Solved Precis Exercise Effective rational propaganda becomes possible only when there is a clear understanding on the part of all concerned, of the nature of symbols and of their relations to the things and events symbolised. Irrational propaganda depends for its effectiveness on a general failure to understand the nature of symbols. Simple—minded people tend to equate the symbol with what it stands for, to attribute to things and events...

Fully Solved Precis Exercise The period of history, which is commonly called ‘modern’, has a mental outlook which differs from that of the medieval period in many ways. Of these, two are the most important the diminishing authority of the Church and the increasing authority of science. With these two, others are connected. The culture of modern times is more lay than clerical. States increasingly replace the Church as the governmental...

Fully Solved Precis Exercise 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 meta—physics that was specially known as the Experience Philosophy, but those who advanced it were grim rationalists and utilitarian’s who were already old in years, or more commonly old before their time We all know that experience now...

Fully Solved Precis Exercise Who are really the happiest people It is odd that -ve have no answer really: for with most of us happiness is our beings 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 time...

Fully Solved Precis Exercise Something like 30, 00,000 acres of crops and pastures in Britain are annually sprayed against weeds and insect pests, and the area grows every year. Is this good or bad Is it mere labour-saving, is it a substitute for good husbandry, or is it a genuine advance in farming methods And what will be its effect on us all – in terms of health and welfare  It...

Fully Solved Precis Exercise Write a precis of the following passage it about 300 words. State the exact number of words used at the end of the precis. Some Western writers, and some people in Russia toe, 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...

Fully Solved Precis Exercise The test of a great book is whether we war to read it only once or more than once. Any really great book we want to read the second time even more than we wanted to read it the first time; and every additional time that we read it we find new meanings and new beauties in it. A book that parson of education and good taste...