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Oh Blindness to The Future Kindly Given We know the present, what is happening now. We know by memory something of our own past, and by history some-thing of the world’s past. But the future, what will happen but has not yet happened, we know not. The future is a closed book ; or rather, a book that has not yet been opened. To-morrow never comes, and no one has ever...
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August 13, 2019 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Prohibition Essay No. 01 Prohibition in India is essential both from material and moral points of view. The intoxicating drinks have ruined many a family by draining their financial resources and by creating complicated domestic problems. The hard-earned money has been wasted on intoxicants by imprudent people and it has brought untold misery to their families. A drunkard is a curse to his family and a nuisance to society. Moreover, our...
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Literature is Not a Mere Science, to be Studied; but an Art, to be Practiced The word “literature” means, literally, letters ; and we use the word “letters” itself in the sense of “literature” in the phrase, “a man of letters”. Literature is the written word. But all that is written or printed is not literature ; for the name of “literature” is given only to memorable thought finely and nobly...
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August 13, 2019 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), Hindi (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Secularism in India India is the home of many religions. Here Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, etc, have thrived side by side. The instances of religious bigotry and persecution are rare in the history of India. On the other hand, the persecuted people from other countries got refuge in this country. It would have been unwise to violate the ancient traditions of tolerance and magnanimity. Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the...
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Electricity in the Service of Man Not much over a hundred years ago, electricity, except in the form of lightning, was an unknown force. Its discovery was due to Michael Faraday, the great English scientist. On one occasion, about 1830, he was showing one of his early experiments to a distinguished company at the Royal Institution in London. He showed that when a magnet was brought suddenly near a coil of...
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Reverence Reverence is a mixture of admiration and awe or wonder. We can admire without wonder or awe, as when we admire a pretty garden or a Kashmir silk shawl. We can feel awe, too, without admiration, as at the power of a tyrant or the cruelty of a tiger. But when we revere a person or thing, we both fear and admire or even love. So we reverence God; for...
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Importance of News & Views in Modern Life The chief functions of newspapers are meant to afford the public information, entertainment and guidance about a variety of subjects vital to modern man. Modern man gets much of his knowledge from the Press, because in it he finds information about men and matters that both delight and instruct him, especially those aspects of life which daily confront him. A modern newspaper covers...
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My Hobbies One of the toys little boys play with is the “hobby-horse”. This is a long stick fitted with a wooden horse’s head, painted to look real. The child puts this between his legs, and prances about, pretending to be riding a horse. From this word “hobby-horse” we get the word hobby, an amusement ; and we speak of a man’s “riding” his hobby. Properly, a hobby is any interesting...
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