Passages with Solved Precis Crudely put, this is the vague idea behind such of the planning today. One may denounce the motives as selfish and short-sighted, but denunciation is of little worth. The human creature, at least in aggregate, is selfish and the rich and the powerful are, of course, selfish. The cheerful fact is that whatever the reasons for the determination to educate the backward people and develop the undeveloped...

Passages with Solved Precis Man, as he is, is not to be regarded as the crowning glory of evolution. The story of life on earth goes back to a thousand million years. In each geological period there have appeared creatures which might have been represented as the highest types of creation. Yet, those forms of life have been superseded by others. When we look at the steady climb of life in...

Passages with Solved Precis We should face facts as they exist. We are multilingual it is true, and a very poor country too. The fear of getting employment or not getting employment springs, out of that poverty of ours. But. once we took courage in both our hands and began to work, poverty would vanish, and then those languages which have created a narrow regional spirit instead of being the curse...

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...