PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS Like every other instrument that man has invented, sport can be used for good or for evil purposes. Used well, it can teach endurance and courage, a sense of fair play and a respect for rules, coordinated effort, and the subordination of...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS Perhaps we are living in one of the great ages of mankind and have to pay the price for that privilege. The great ages have been full of conflicts and instability, of an attempt to change over from the old to something...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS There is something radically wrong with the entire structure of human relationship that makes men delight in killing man, whether it be in the name of civilization or religion or anything else. Two wrongs do not make a right; hatred must beget...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS What manner was Napoleon then? Was he one of the great ones of the earth, the Man of Destiny as he was called, a mighty hero and one who helped in freeing, humanity from its many burdens? Or was he, as H.G....
PARAGRAPH FOR 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....
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS Old age, it is said, disqualifies us from taking an active part in the great scenes of the business. But in what scenes? Let me ask if in those which require the strength and vivacity of youth. I really admit the charge,...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties. If there were no difficulties, there would be no success. If there were nothing to struggle for or compete for, there would be nothing achieved. It is, therefore, that men should be under the...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS One of heaven’s best gifts to man is humour, for it adds innocent pleasure to life, both in health and in sickness, and helps to promote good feelings among people in their daily intercourse with one another. Sydney Smith says, “Man should...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS College is a preparation for life and life is infinitely wider than work. Life is also leisure and thought and family relationship; it is a play and art and religion; it is sleep and walking and death itself. Not only life is...
PARAGRAPH FOR PRECIS The position that Indian women occupy today is very largely the result of a little more than a century of earnest endeavour on the part of social reformers, educationists, and political leaders; for it was the 20th century that really ushered in...
