71. S1: At the age of four, Jagadish Chandra Bose was sent to a village 'pathshala'.
P: This step proved beneficial to the boy, for he thus became familiar with his mother tongue and learnt to read and write it.
Q: This was very unusual because a man of his father's status was expected to send his son to an English school.
R: He also became acquainted with some people of the rich treasures of Indian culture.
S: At the same time he mixed with children of all castes and lost the sense of class superiority.
S6: His mother, too, reinforced what he learnt and did at school.
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P: This step proved beneficial to the boy, for he thus became familiar with his mother tongue and learnt to read and write it.
Q: This was very unusual because a man of his father's status was expected to send his son to an English school.
R: He also became acquainted with some people of the rich treasures of Indian culture.
S: At the same time he mixed with children of all castes and lost the sense of class superiority.
S6: His mother, too, reinforced what he learnt and did at school.
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72. S1: I never took payment for speaking.
P: The Sunday Society would then assure me that on these terms I might lecture on anything I liked and how I liked.
Q: It often happened that provincial Sunday societies offered me the usual ten genuine fee to give the usual sort of lecture, avoiding controversial politics and religion.
R: Occasionally to avoid embarrassing other lecturers who lived by lecturing, the account was settled by a debit and credit entry, that is, I was credited with the usual fee and expenses and gave it back as a donation to the society.
S: I always replied that I never lectured on anything but very controversial politics and religion and that my fee was the price of my railway ticket third class if the place was farther off than I could afford to go at my own expense.
S6: In this way I secured perfect freedom of speech, and was warmed against the accusation of being a professional agitator.
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P: The Sunday Society would then assure me that on these terms I might lecture on anything I liked and how I liked.
Q: It often happened that provincial Sunday societies offered me the usual ten genuine fee to give the usual sort of lecture, avoiding controversial politics and religion.
R: Occasionally to avoid embarrassing other lecturers who lived by lecturing, the account was settled by a debit and credit entry, that is, I was credited with the usual fee and expenses and gave it back as a donation to the society.
S: I always replied that I never lectured on anything but very controversial politics and religion and that my fee was the price of my railway ticket third class if the place was farther off than I could afford to go at my own expense.
S6: In this way I secured perfect freedom of speech, and was warmed against the accusation of being a professional agitator.
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73. S1: In ancient Indian history the city of Ujjain was quite famous.
P: Here lived at one time the poet Kalidasa.
Q: He was a famous learned astronomer.
R: And here also worked and visited Rajah Jaysingh of Jaipur.
S: It was always renowned as a seat of learning.
S6: So one can see what a great love all who care for India must feel for the ancientry of Ujjain.
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P: Here lived at one time the poet Kalidasa.
Q: He was a famous learned astronomer.
R: And here also worked and visited Rajah Jaysingh of Jaipur.
S: It was always renowned as a seat of learning.
S6: So one can see what a great love all who care for India must feel for the ancientry of Ujjain.
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74. S1: Useful human beings are divided into two classes : those whose work is work and pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.
P: The long hours in the office or factory give them keen appetite for pleasure even in its most modest forms.
Q: Their life is a natural harmony.
R: Of these the former are in majority.
S: But fortune's favoured children belong to the second class.
S6: For them the working hours are never long enough.
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P: The long hours in the office or factory give them keen appetite for pleasure even in its most modest forms.
Q: Their life is a natural harmony.
R: Of these the former are in majority.
S: But fortune's favoured children belong to the second class.
S6: For them the working hours are never long enough.
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75. S1: Governments are instituted among men to secure their certain inalienable rights.
P: Accordingly, men are more disposed to suffer than to right themselves by abolishing the forms of governments to which they are accustomed.
Q: But prudence will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
R: They derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and therefore, can also be changed by them.
S: But whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these rights of the people, it is their duty to throw off such a government.
S6: Such was the necessity which constrained the united colonies of America to give up their allegiance to the British Crown and declare themselves free and independent states.
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P: Accordingly, men are more disposed to suffer than to right themselves by abolishing the forms of governments to which they are accustomed.
Q: But prudence will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
R: They derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and therefore, can also be changed by them.
S: But whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these rights of the people, it is their duty to throw off such a government.
S6: Such was the necessity which constrained the united colonies of America to give up their allegiance to the British Crown and declare themselves free and independent states.
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76. S1: Just as some men like to play football or tennis, so some men like to climb mountains.
P: This is often very difficult to do, for mountains are not just big hills.
Q: Paths are usually very steep, and some mountain sides are straight up and down, so that it may take many hours to climb as little as one hundred feet.
R: There is always the danger that you may fall off and be killed or injured.
S: Men talk about conquering a mountain, and the wonderful feeling it is to reach the top of a mountain after climbing for hours and may be, even for days.
S6: You look down and see the whole country below you.
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P: This is often very difficult to do, for mountains are not just big hills.
Q: Paths are usually very steep, and some mountain sides are straight up and down, so that it may take many hours to climb as little as one hundred feet.
R: There is always the danger that you may fall off and be killed or injured.
S: Men talk about conquering a mountain, and the wonderful feeling it is to reach the top of a mountain after climbing for hours and may be, even for days.
S6: You look down and see the whole country below you.
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77. S1: The fifty seven storey Wool-worth Tower is in New York.
P: Soon it became one of the famous buildings in the world.
Q: It was completed in 1912.
R: Americans took pride in this tall skyscraper.
S: However, it was not long before five other buildings topped the Woolworth Tower.
S6: A new champion is the Empire State Building which rises 102 storeys into the sky.
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P: Soon it became one of the famous buildings in the world.
Q: It was completed in 1912.
R: Americans took pride in this tall skyscraper.
S: However, it was not long before five other buildings topped the Woolworth Tower.
S6: A new champion is the Empire State Building which rises 102 storeys into the sky.
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78. S1: A certain young man was entrusted to the care of a teacher.
P: This dullard will come to grief if I send him away without a single lesson, thought the teacher.
Q: He was so dull of mind that he could not, even in three months, time, learn as much as a single lesson.
R: The young man came to ask the teacher's permission to go home.
S: It's my business to provide agood education to my pupils, to get on in life.
S6: The teacher asked him to wait.
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P: This dullard will come to grief if I send him away without a single lesson, thought the teacher.
Q: He was so dull of mind that he could not, even in three months, time, learn as much as a single lesson.
R: The young man came to ask the teacher's permission to go home.
S: It's my business to provide agood education to my pupils, to get on in life.
S6: The teacher asked him to wait.
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79. S1: American private lives may seem shallow.
P: Students would walk away with books they had not paid for.
Q: A Chinese journalist commented on a curious institution: the library.
R: Their public morality, however, impressed visitors.
S: But in general they returned them.
S6: This would not happen in China, he said.
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P: Students would walk away with books they had not paid for.
Q: A Chinese journalist commented on a curious institution: the library.
R: Their public morality, however, impressed visitors.
S: But in general they returned them.
S6: This would not happen in China, he said.
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80. S1: Widowhood in India used to be specially miserable.
P: There were widows even in ages ranging from five to ten.
Q: A widow was a widow always.
R: However, several communities began to rebel against the ill-treatment of widows.
S: She could not marry again however tender in age she might be.
S6: Today nobody looks upon remarriage of widows with disgust or disapproval.
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P: There were widows even in ages ranging from five to ten.
Q: A widow was a widow always.
R: However, several communities began to rebel against the ill-treatment of widows.
S: She could not marry again however tender in age she might be.
S6: Today nobody looks upon remarriage of widows with disgust or disapproval.
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