EXERCISE 1 The dangers which confront our civilization are not so much the external dangers – wild men wars and the bankruptcy that wars bring after them. The most alarming dangers are those which menace it from within, that threaten the mind rather than the body and estate of contemporary man. Of all the various poisons which modern civilization, by a process of auto-intoxication, brews quietly up within its own bowels,...

EXERCISE 1 There are, I think, several factors that contribute to wisdom, of these I should put first a sense of proportion, the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each its due weight. This has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extend and complexity of the specialized knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. Suppose, for...

Passages with Solved Precis Never in human history has the universal in the soul of man burnt so dimly as today. It is for the philosopher to realise the human in all, Russian or American, Chinese or British. We have to give up the war mentality and the belief that we want the peace while the others want war, to find out it the basic assumption of the conflicting way of...

Passages with Solved Precis The dangers which confront our civilization are not so much the external dangers—wild men, wars and the bankruptcy that wars bring after them. The most alarming dangers are those which menace it from within, that threaten the mind rather than the body and estate of contemporary man. Of all the various poisons which modern civilization by a process of auto-intoxication, brews quietly up within its own bowls,...