Sometimes we went off the road and on a path through the pine forest. The floor of the forest was soft to walk on; the frost did not happen it as it did the road. But we did not mind the hardness of the road because we had nails in the soles and heels nails bit on the frozen ruts and with nailed boots it was good walking on the road and invigorating. It was lovely walking in the woods.
We found great joy on account of
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Sometimes we walked through the pine forest as
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Modern economies does not differentiate between renewable and non-renewable materials, as its method is to measures everything by means of a money price. Thus, taking various alternatives fuels, like coal, oil, wood or water power: the only difference between them recognised by modern economics is relative cost per equivalent unit. The cheapest is automatically the one to be preferred, as to do otherwise would be irrational and 'uneconomic'. From a Buddhist point of view of course this will not do, the essential difference between non-renewable fuels like coal and oil on the one hand and renewable fuels like wood and water power on the other cannot be simply overlooked. Non-renewable goods must be used only if they are indespensible, and then only with the greatest care and the highest concern for conservation. To use them carelessly or extravagantly is an act of violence, and while complete non-violence may not be possible on earth, it is nonetheless the duty of man to aim at deal of non-violence in all he does.
According to the passage, Buddhist economists are not in favour of
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Which of the following statements may be assumed to be false from the information in the passage?
1.The writer finds the attitude of modern economists towards natural resources to be uneconomic.
2.Buddhist economists are in different to the cost of fuels
3.To use oil on non-essentials is contrary to the Buddhist economic philosophy
4.To fell a tree is an act of violence not permitted by Buddhist economists
Of the above statements
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In this passage the author is trying to
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The Buddhist economist's attitude implies that fuels like coal and oil must be used only if
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The passage suggests that while a modern economist, considers it uneconomic to use ...... form of fuel, a Buddhist economist considers it uneconomic to use ...... form a fuel
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The greatest thing this age can be proud of is the birth of man in the conciousness of men. In his drunken orgies of power and national pride man may flout and jeer at it. when organised national selfishness, racial antipathy and commercial self seeking begin to display their ugly deformities in all their nakedness, then comes the time for man to know that his salvation is not in political organisations and extended trade relations, not in any mechanical re-arrangement of social system but in a deeper transformation of life, in the liberation of consciousness in love, in the realisation of God in man.
In this passage, the phrase "God in man" implies
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In the phrase "the birth of Man in the consciousness of men", AMn stands for
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According to the author, "salvation" of human beings lies in the
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