Passages with Solved Precis In the good old days of the great King Ashoka, a sense of justice, it is said prevented any Indian king from attempting conquest beyond the limits of India. It is true that it was the ambition of the most powerful kings to be Chakravarti or ruler of the world. But world they thought of was confined to India. Beyond its natural frontiers they had no ambitions....

Passages with Solved Precis People moan about poverty as a great evil and it seems to be an accepted belief that if people only had plenty of money, they would be happy and useful and get more out of life. As a rule there is more genuine satisfaction in life and more attained from life in the humble cottages of the poor man than in the palaces of the rich. I...

Passages with Solved Precis During the Gupta period the people enjoyed perfect religious freedom. The emperors used to treat monks belonging to various religious denominations with kindness and they used to give them much money by way of charity though they themselves belonged to the Brahmanical creed. Thus, learned Buddhist monks used to reside in the monasteries at Patliputra and many Buddhists used to come from far and near to study...

Passages with Solved Precis India is supposed to be a religious country above everything else. The spectacle of what is called religion in India and elsewhere had filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost, always it seems to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma, bigotry, superposition and exploitation, and the preservation of the vested interests. And, yet,...

Passages with Solved Precis The great Roman orator, Cicero, in his celebrated treatise on friendship, remarks with truth that it increases happiness and diminishes misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our sorrows. When we do well, it is delightful to have friends who are so proud of our success that they receive as much pleasure from it as we do ourselves. For the friendless man, the...

Passages with Solved Precis The first thing necessary to the pleasure of reading is that when people are young they should acquire the habit of reading. This is becoming more and more difficult. Before I was aware of things in the world, the Penny Post had already begun to make a change adverse to reading. By consuming a vast amount of time in correspondence that was unnecessary, trivial or irksome. Railways...

Passages with Solved Precis There is no doubt that people are growing more and more interested in the seas, and that there is a great need for that interest. Men have long tried to probe the secrets of the oceans to gain knowledge for its own sake, but there are other practical reasons for doing so. The sea can provide us with many things that we need in everyday life. Future...

Passages with Solved Precis There is no end to attempts to size up man and put him in a little bottle with a neat lable as if he were a butterfly or something. Clothes it is said, and manners, make the man; he is judged by the company he keeps, the books he borrows, the food he shows a preference to eat, the consumer goods he hopes to buy, the games...