Passages with Solved Precis Who are really the happiest people? It is odd that we have no answer ready; for with most of us happiness is ‘our being’s end 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...

Passages with Solved Precis The thief who neither knows nor admits that he is a thief seldom comes into court. And this is the most dangerous sort, because the market value of his stolen property cannot be economically assessed: he is the thief of his neighbour’s privacy, patience, time, energies, and of his very identity. How are such thefts licenced? By the general axiom that man, being a gregarious creature, enjoys...

Passages with Solved Precis 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 metaphysics that was, specially known as the Experience Philosophy, but those who advanced it were grim rationalists and utilitarians who were already old in years, or more commonly old before their time. We all now know that experience...

Passages with Solved Precis From the very outset philosophy came forward as a science and as the only science. The highest and more certain knowledge was the aim which inspired its disciples. The fact that the question could be-raised as to whether it was a science at all can only be understood in the light of the development of the specially, modern sciences which came to fruition in the nineteenth century,...

Passages with Solved Precis To know what the Buddha actually taught, we must place ourselves in imagination of India in the sixth century B.C. Thinkers, like other people, are in no small measure rooted in time and place. The form in which they cast their ideas is largely moulded by the habits of thought and action which they find around them. Great minds make individual contributions of permanent value to the...

Passages with Solved Precis 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-in terms of health and welfare? It is a fair statement...

Passages with Solved Precis The production and distribution of the modern popular newspaper, which reckons its readers by the million, entails a vast expenditure of money and an elaborate business organization such as only highly capitalised firms can afford. The intense competition for the pennies of the vast reading public and for the patronage of advertisers has caused newspapers with insufficient financial backing to be eliminated or absorbed by their stronger...

Passages with Solved Precis Here then is the first answer to the question, what is the aim of education? Its aim is to know first rate in every subject that we study with a view to achieving it as nearly as our powers allow. If we fix it firmly in our mind we should not stumble through a variety of lessons, lectures and books like a drunk man, only partially aware...