Passages with Solved Precis The last ball has been bowled, the bats have been oiled and put away, and around Lord’s the grand-stands are deserted and forlorn. We have said farewell to cricket. We have said farewell, too to cricket’s king. The well graced actor leaves the stage and becomes only a memory in a world of happy memories. And so ‘hats off to the Jam Sahib the prince of a...

Passages with Solved Precis In the competition of life he wins who can do the largest amount of work: in the shortest space of time. That is why men use tools, which make one pair of hands do the work of five or ten. The savage who scratches the earth with his bare hands has to give way to the man who drives the plough. It is not his physical strength...

Passages with Solved Precis Although, Tipu had long been recognised as successor to his father and ascended the throne without opposition, it was still the throne of a usurper. For the maintenance of his authority, it was necessary to support a greater military establishment than the revenues of the country could afford and the expedient with naturally presented itself was an extension to territory. Of his actual possessions, too, much had...

Passages with Solved Precis “The great advantage of early rising is the good start it gives us in our day’s work. The early riser has done a large amount of hard work before other men have got out of bed. In the early morning the mind is fresh, and there are few sounds or other distractions, so that work done at that time is generally well done. In many cases the...

Passages with Solved Precis “It is the height of selfishness for men, who fully appreciate in their own case the great advantage of a good education, to deny these advantages to women. There is no valid argument by which the exclusion of the female sex from the privilege of education can be defended. It is argued that women have their domestic duties to perform and that, if they were educated, they...

Passages with Solved Precis Democracy means Equality; but what does Equality mean? Obviously it does not mean that we are all alike in political faculty or indeed in any faculty. Nature inexorably divides us into a mass of persons differing in attitudes and ability, with a percentage of nincompoops and a percentage of geniuses. But as their bodily needs are the same, their food and clothes and lodging can be rationed...

Passages with Solved Precis I am here to add, on behalf of our Government and our people, to the many welcomes you have had already. It has been stated that the meeting of this general conference of the UNESCO in Delhi has a certain special significance. It is a tribute, if I may say so, to the importance that is now attached by this great organization to the countries of Asia....

Passages with Solved Precis Nothing is gained, in any discussion of communism by treating it as’ a wicked doctrine which would never have arisen if a handful of criminal adventurers had not devoted themselves to its propagation. Like any other system or belief, its rise is the outcome of its environment, and its acceptance by large bodies of men is no more unnatural than their acceptance of other creeds. Those to...