Surely it is a tenable philosophy that when we meet goodness and greatness, we are in the presence of something fundamentels in the universe solid ground that remains firm whatever convulsions shake in the world surely it is in them that one meets the real humanbeing. Another side of man is real too the dark pretty sensual side: here his quarrels and jealousies and hates and greeds and passions take their rise But if i had to find the essential characteristic thing in man! should not find it, like Marx, in the economic animal or like Freud and many modern novelists in a sex-ridden phantom! should find it in man straining his eyes to catch sight of the version of a better world and to in corporate what he can see inbthe life of himself and his society is not that the the real human being ?And when you consider history is it not through men and women of this type that the progress most worth making has come about ? Are not these the lines on which the world has advanced and will continue to advance towards something better? We need, said Burke in his stately language to auspicate all our proceedings with the old warnings of the chruch ‘Sursum corda - Lift up your hearts’ But how from levels of our ordinary lives,our average minds can we raise ourselves if only for a space to heights beyonds our own capacity even beyond our normal vision ? the answer is that we can raise ourselves on the shoulders of those who have walked on the higher levels. What we could not do,unaided we can do with their help. Religion is the greatest instrument for so raising us. It is amazing that a person not intellectually bright perphaps not even educated is capable of grapsing and living by something so advanced as the principles of Christianity. Yet that is a common phenomenom It is not however in my province to talk about religion , but religion, but rather to stress the power which great literture and great personalities whom we meet in it and in history have to open and enlarge our minds and to show us what is first-rate in human personality and human character by showing goodness and greatness Any educations which neglects that is incomplete and very inadequate preparation for life.
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Surely it is a tenable philosophy that when we meet goodness and greatness, we are in the presence of something fundamentels in the universe solid ground that remains firm whatever convulsions shake in the world surely it is in them that one meets the real humanbeing. Another side of man is real too the dark pretty sensual side: here his quarrels and jealousies and hates and greeds and passions take their rise But if i had to find the essential characteristic thing in man! should not find it, like Marx, in the economic animal or like Freud and many modern novelists in a sex-ridden phantom! should find it in man straining his eyes to catch sight of the version of a better world and to in corporate what he can see inbthe life of himself and his society is not that the the real human being ?And when you consider history is it not through men and women of this type that the progress most worth making has come about ? Are not these the lines on which the world has advanced and will continue to advance towards something better? We need, said Burke in his stately language to auspicate all our proceedings with the old warnings of the chruch ‘Sursum corda - Lift up your hearts’ But how from levels of our ordinary lives,our average minds can we raise ourselves if only for a space to heights beyonds our own capacity even beyond our normal vision ? the answer is that we can raise ourselves on the shoulders of those who have walked on the higher levels. What we could not do,unaided we can do with their help. Religion is the greatest instrument for so raising us. It is amazing that a person not intellectually bright perphaps not even educated is capable of grapsing and living by something so advanced as the principles of Christianity. Yet that is a common phenomenom It is not however in my province to talk about religion , but religion, but rather to stress the power which great literture and great personalities whom we meet in it and in history have to open and enlarge our minds and to show us what is first-rate in human personality and human character by showing goodness and greatness Any educations which neglects that is incomplete and very inadequate preparation for life.
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a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage make notes on its using headings and subheadings Use
recognisable abbreviations wherever necessary (minimum 4) Use a format you consider suitable also supply an
appropriate title to it answer is 4 please follow