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 are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness. The things that it must avoid, and that have brought it to the brink of catastrophe, are...

Passages with Solved Precis The leading distinction between dog and man after and perhaps before the different duration of their lives is that the one can speak and the other cannot. The absence of the power of the speech confines the dog in the development of this intellect. It hinders him from many speculations, for words are the beginning of metaphysic. At the same time it saves him from many superstitions,...

Passages with Solved Precis When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another and to resume among the powers of the earth a separate and equal station, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all...

Passages with Solved Precis Lord Krishna was an eminent personality of the Epic period of Indian History. He was a great philosopher and a Karma-yogi. His birth took place at Mathura, now, the glorious centre of Indian culture and civilization that is situated in the midst of the Vraj Bhumi and the serene waters of the Yamuna flows even today to remind one of the great times when Indian civilization was...

Passages with Solved Precis I know no place where the great truth that no man is necessary is brought home to the mind so remorselessly, and yet so refreshingly, as the House of Commons. Over even the greatest reputations it closes with barely a bubble. And, yet, the vanity of politicians is enormous, but vain, very vain. There is a great deal of vanity, both expressed and concealed, in the House...