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Passage1. Knowledge and Virtue

Knowledge
is
one
thing,
virtue
is
another;
good
sense
is
not
conscience,
refinement
is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however
enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential
motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not
the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have
a
cultivated
intellect,
a
delicate
taste,
a
candid,
equitable,
dispassionate
mind,
a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life

these are the connatural
qualities
of
a
large
knowledge;
they
are
the
objects
of
a
University.
I
am
advocating,
I shall illustrate and insist upon them;
but
still,
I
repeat,
they
are
no
guarantee
for
sanctity
or
even
for
conscientiousness,
and they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless,
pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them. Taken by
themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a
distance, but they are detected by close observers, and in the long run; and hence
it
is
that
they
are
popularly
accused
of
pretense
and
hypocrisy,
not,
I
repeat,
from
their
own
fault,
but
because
their
professors
and
their
admirers
persist
in
taking
them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to
which they have no claim. Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel
with a thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments
as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion
and the pride of man.

Passage
2. “Packing” a Person


A
person,
like
a
commodity,
needs packaging.
But
going
too far
is
absolutely
undesirable.
A
little
exaggeration,
however,
does
no
harm
when
it
shows
the
person's
unique qualities to their advantage. To display personal charm in a casual and
natural
way,
it
is
important
for
one
to
have
a
clear
knowledge
of
oneself.
A
master
packager
knows
how
to
integrate
art
and
nature
without
any
traces
of
embellishment,
so
that
the
person
so
packaged
is
no
commodity
but
a
human
being,
lively
and
lovely.
A young person, especially a female, radiant with beauty and full of life, has all
the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth,
however, comes and goes in a moment of doze. Packaging for the middle-aged is
primarily
to
conceal
the
furrows
ploughed
by
time.
If
you
still enjoy
life's
exuberance enough to retain self-confidence and pursue pioneering work, you are
unique in your natural qualities, and your charm and grace will remain. Elderly
people
are
beautiful
if
their
river
of
life
has
been,
through
plains,
mountains
and
jungles,
running
its
course
as
it
should.
You
have
really
lived
your
life
which
now
arrives at a complacent stage of serenity indifferent to fame or wealth. There is
no need to resort to hair- dyeing

the snow-capped mountain is itself a beautiful
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scene of fairyland. Let
your looks change from young to
old synchronizing with the
natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is
beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the
elder's company
is like
reading a thick book of
deluxe
edition that fascinates
one
so much as to be
reluctant to part with.
As long as one finds where one
stands, one
knows
how
to
package
oneself,
just
as
a
commodity
establishes
its
brand
by
the
right
packaging.

Passage3. Three Passions I Have Lived for

Three
passions,
simple
but
overwhelmingly
strong,
have
governed
my
life:
the
longing
for
love,
the
search
for
knowledge,
and
unbearable
pity
for
the
suffering
of
mankind.
These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward
course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have
sought
love,
first,
because
it
brings
ecstasy

ecstasy
so
great
that
I
would
often
have
sacrificed all the
rest
of my life for a few hours for this
joy. I
have
sought
it, next, because it relieves loneliness

that terrible loneliness in which one
shivering
consciousness
looks
over
the
rim
of
the
world
into
the
cold
unfathomable
lifeless
abyss.
I
have
sought
it,
finally,
because
in
the
union
of
love
I
have
seen,
in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets
have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human
life,
this
is
what

at
last

I
have
found.
With
equal
passion
I
have
sought
knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars
shine ... A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so
far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought
me
back
to
earth.
Echoes
of
cries
of
pain
reverberate
in
my
heart.
Children
in
famine,
victims
tortured
by
oppressors,
helpless
old
people

a
hated
burden
to
their
sons,
and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human
life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This
has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if
the chance were offered me.

Passage4. A Little Girl

Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little
girl. With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, while one
of
her
little
hands
was
pointing
to
a
tiny
cloud
that
hovered
like
a
golden
feather
above
her
head.
The
sun,
which
had
suddenly
become
very
bright,
shining
on
her
glossy
hair, gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color,
dark
bronze
or
black.
So
completely
absorbed
was
she
in
watching
the
cloud
to
which
her strange
song
or incantation seemed addressed, that
she did not observe me when
I rose and went towards her. Over her head, high up in the blue, a lark that was
soaring towards the same gauzy cloud was singing, as if in rivalry. As I slowly
approached
the
child,
I
could
see
by
her
forehead,
which
in
the
sunshine
seemed
like
a
globe
of
pearl,
and
especially
by
her
complexion,
that
she
uncommonly
lovely.
Her
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eyes, which
at one moment seemed blue- gray, at another
violet, were shaded by long
black
lashes,
curving
backward
in
a
most
peculiar
way,
and
these
matched
in
hue
her
eyebrows, and the tresses that were tossed about her tender throat were quivering
in
the
sunlight.
All
this
I
did
not
take
in
at
once;
for
at
first
I
could
see
nothing
but those quivering, glittering, changeful eyes turned up into my face. Gradually
the other features, especially the sensitive full-lipped mouth, grew upon me as I
stood silently gazing. Here seemed to me a more perfect beauty than had ever come
to me in my loveliest dreams of beauty. Yet it was not her beauty so much as the
look she gave me that fascinated me, melted me.

Passage5 Declaration of Independence
When
in
the
Course
of
human
events,
it
becomes
necessary
for
one
people
to
dissolve
the
political
bands
which
have
connected
them
with
another,
and
to
assume
among
the
powers
of
the
earth,
the
separate
and
equal
station
to
which
the
Laws
of
Nature
and
of Nature's
God entitle
them, a
decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires
that
they
should
declare
the
causes
which
impel
them
to
the
separation.
We
hold
these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by
their
Creator
with
certain
unalienable
Rights,
that
among
these
are
Life,
Liberty
and
the
pursuit
of
Happiness.

That
to
secure
these
rights,
Governments
are
instituted
among
Men,
deriving
their
just
powers
from
the
consent
of
the
governed,

That
whenever
any
Form
of
Government
becomes
destructive
of
these
ends,
it
is
the
Right
of
the
People
to
alter
or
to
abolish
it,
and
to
institute
new
Government,
laying
its
foundation
on
such
principles
and
organizing
its
powers
in
such
form,
as
to
them
shall
seem
most
likely
to
effect
their
Safety
and
Happiness.
Prudence,
indeed,
will
dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind are more
disposed
to
suffer,
while
evils
are
sufferable,
than
to
right
themselves
by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses
and
usurpations,
pursuing
invariably
the
same
Object
evinces
a
design
to
reduce
them
under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been
the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which
constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the
present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny
over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Passage6. A Tribute to the Dog
The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy.
His
son
or
daughter
that
he
has
reared
with
loving
care
may
prove
ungrateful.
Those
who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our
good
name,
may
become
traitors
to
their
faith.
The
money
that
a
man
has
he
may
lose.
It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most.
A man’s reputation may be
sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall
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on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the
stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely
unselfish
friend
that
man
can
have
in
this
selfish
world,
the
one
that
never
deserts
him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
A man’s dog
stands
by
him
in
prosperity
and
in
poverty,
in
health
and
in
sickness.
He
will
sleep
on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if
only he may be near his mast
er’s side.
He will kiss the hand that has no food to
offer;
he
will
lick
the
wounds
and
sores
that
come
from
encounter
with
the
roughness
of the world. He will guard the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince.
When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings and reputation
falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journeys through
the
heavens.
If
fortune
drives
the
master
forth,
an
outcast
in
the
world,
friendless
and homeless

the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying
him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last
scene
of
all
comes,
and
death
takes
the
master
in
its
embrace,
and
his
body
is
laid
away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by
the grave will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but
open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death.

Passage7. Knowledge and Progress
Why does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world? Surely because
progress of a particular kind is actually taking place around us and is becoming
more and more manifest. Although mankind has undergone no general improvement in
intelligence or morality, it has made extraordinary progress in the accumulation
of
knowledge.
Knowledge
began
to
increase
as
soon
as
the
thoughts
of
one
individual
could
be
communicated
to
another
by
means
of
speech.
With
the
invention
of
writing


a
great
advance
was
made,
for
knowledge
could
then
be
not
only
communicated
but
also
stored. Libraries made education possible, and education in its turn added to
libraries:
the
growth
of
knowledge
followed
a
kind
of
compound
interest
law,
which
was
greatly
enhanced
by
the
invention
of
printing.
All
this
was
comparatively
slow
until, with the coming of science, the tempo was suddenly raised. Then knowledge
began
to
be
accumulated
according
to
a
systematic
plan.
The
trickle
became
a
stream;
the
stream
has
now
become
a
torrent.
Moreover,
as
soon
as
new
knowledge
is
acquired,
it is now turned to practical account.
What is called “modern civilization” is
not the result of a balanced development of all man's nature, but of accumulated
knowledge applied to practical life. The problem now facing humanity is: What is
going to be done with all this knowledge? As is so often pointed out, knowledge is
a
two-edged
weapon
which
can
be
used
equally
for
good
or
evil.
It
is
now
being
used
indifferently
for
both.
Could
any
spectacle,
for
instance,
be
more
grimly
weird
than
that
of
gunners
using
science
to
shatter
men's
bodies
while,
close
at
hand,
surgeons
use it to restore them? We have to ask ourselves very seriously what will happen
if this twofold use of knowledge, with its ever-increasing power, continues.

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Passage8. Address by Engels
On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living
thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when
we came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep

but forever.
An
immeasurable
loss
has
been
sustained
both
by
the
militant
proletariat
of
Europe
and America, and by historical science, in the death of this man. The gap that has
been
left
by
the
departure
of
this
mighty
spirit
will
soon
enough
make
itself
felt.
Just
as
Darwin
discovered
the
law
of
development
of
organic
nature,
so
Marx
discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto
concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all
eat, drink,
have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion,
etc.;
that
therefore
the
production
of
the
immediate
material
means
of
subsistence
and consequently the degree of economic development attained by a given people or
during
a
given
epoch
form
the
foundation
upon
which
the
state
institutions,
the
legal
conceptions,
art,
and
even
the
ideas
on
religion,
of
the
people
concerned
have
been
evolved, and in the light of which they must, therefore, be explained, instead of
vice
versa,
as
had
hitherto
been
the
case.
But
that
is
not
all.
Marx
also
discovered
the special law of motion governing the present-day capitalist mode of production
and the bourgeois society that this mode of production has created. The discovery
of surplus value suddenly threw light on the problem, in trying to solve which all
previous investigations, of both bourgeois economists and socialist critics, had
been groping in the dark. Two such discoveries would be enough for one lifetime.
Happy the man to whom it is granted to make even one such discovery. But in every
single field which Marx investigated

and he investigated very many fields, none
of
them
superficially

in
every
field,
even
in
that
of
mathematics,
he
made
independent discoveries.

Passage9. Relationship that Lasts
If somebody tells you,“ I’ll love you for ever,” will you believe it? I don’t
thi
nk there’s any reason not to.
We are ready to believe such commitment at the
moment,
whatever
change
may
happen
afterwards.
As
for
the
belief
in
an
everlasting
love, that
’s another thing.
Then you may be asked whether there is such a thing
as
an
everlasting
love.
I’d
answer
I
believe
in
it,
but
an
everlasting
love
is
not
immutable. You may unswervingly love or be loved by a person. But love will change
its
composition
with
the
passage
of
time.
It
will
not
remain
the
same.
In
the
course
of your growth and as a result of your increased experience, love will become
something
different
to
you.
In
the
beginning
you
believed
a
fervent
love
for
a
person
could last definitely. By
and by, however, “fervent” gave way to “prosaic”.
Precisely
because
of
this
change
it
became
possible
for
love
to
last.
Then
what
was
meant by an everlasting
love would eventually end up in a
sort
of interdependence.
We
used
to
insist
on
the
difference
between
love
and
liking.
The
former
seemed
much
more beautiful than the latter.
One day, however, it turns out there’s really no
need
to
make
such
difference.
Liking
is
actually
a
sort
of
love.
By
the
same
token,
the everlasting interdependence is actually an everlasting love. I wish I could
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believe
there
was
somebody
who
would
love
me
for
ever.
That’s,
as
we
all
k
now,
too
romantic to be true. Instead, it will more often than not be a case of lasting
relationship.

Passage10. Rush
Swallows may have gone, but there is a time of return; willow trees may have died
back, but there is a time of regreening; peach blossoms may have fallen, but they
will bloom again. Now, you the wise, tell me, why should our days leave us, never
to
return?
If
they
had
been
stolen
by
someone,
who
could
it
be?
Where
could
he
hide
them?
If
they
had
made
the
escape
themselves,
then
where
could
they
stay
at
the
moment?
I don’t know how many day
s I have been given to spend, but I do feel my hands are
getting
empty.
Taking
stock
silently,
I
find
that
more
than
eight
thousand
days
have
already
slid
away
from
me.
Like
a
drop
of
water
from
the
point
of
a
needle
disappearing
into
the
ocean,
my
days
are
dripping
into
the
stream
of
time,
soundless,
traceless.
Already sweat is starting on my forehead, and tears welling up in my eyes. Those
that have gone have gone for good, those to come keep coming; yet in between, how
fast is the shift, in such a rush? When I get up in the morning, the slanting sun
marks
its
presence
in
my
small
room
in
two
or
three
oblongs.
The
sun
has
feet,
look,
he
is
treading
on,
lightly
and
furtively;
and
I
am
caught,
blankly,
in
his
revolution.
Thus

the day flows away through the sink when I wash my hands, wears off in the
bowl when I eat my meal, and passes away before my day-dreaming gaze as reflect in
silence. I can feel his haste now, so I reach out my hands to hold him back, but
he
keeps
flowing
past
my
withholding
hands.
In
the
evening,
as
I
lie
in
bed,
he
strides
over my body, glides past my feet, in his agile way. The moment I open my eyes and
meet the sun again, one whole day has gone. I bury my face in my hands and heave
a sigh. But the new day begins to flash past in the sigh. What can I do, in this
bustling world, with my days flying in their escape? Nothing but to hesitate, to
rush.
What
have
I
been
doing
in
that
eight- thousand-day
rush,
apart
from
hesitating?
Those bygone days have been dispersed as smoke by a light wind, or evaporated as
mist
by
the
morning
sun.
What
traces
have
I
left
behind
me?
Have
I
ever
left
behind
any gossamer
traces at all? I have come to the world, stark naked; am I
to go back,
in a blink, in the same stark nakedness? It is not fair though: why should I have
made such a trip for nothing! You the wise, tell me, why should our days leave us,
never to return?

Passage11. A Summer Day
One day thirty years ago Marseilles lay in the burning sun. A blazing sun upon a
fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France than at any other time
before or since. Everything in Marseilles and about Marseilles had stared at the
fervid sun, and had been stared at in return, until a staring habit had become
universal
there.
Strangers
were
stared
out
of
countenance
by
staring
white
houses,
staring
white
streets,
staring
tracts
of
arid
road,
staring
hills
from
which
verdure
was
burnt
away.
The
only
things
to
be
seen
not
fixedly
staring
and
glaring
were
the
vines drooping under their loads of grapes. These did occasionally wink a little,
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