The Commoners Institute
TEST # 02:
By : Sir Waqar Karim
Q1. ESSAY TOPIC:
“Protection of Human Rights is imperative in fight
against terrorism and extremism”
Q2. MAKE A PRÉCIS OF THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE IN ABOUT
ONE THIRD OF ITS LENGTH. Suggest a suitable title also. (20).
It was not from want of perceiving the beauty of external nature but from
the different way of perceiving it, that the early Greeks did not turn their
genius to portray, either in colour or in poetry, the outlines, the hues, and
contrasts of all fair valley, and hill, and cliffs, and golden moons, and
snowy lawns which their beautiful country affords in lavish abundance.
Primitive people never so far as I know, enjoy even in what is called the
picturesque in nature, wild forests, beetling cliffs, reaches of Alpine snow
are with them great hindrances to human intercourse, and difficulties in
the way of agriculture. They are furthermore the homes of the enemies
of mankind, of the eagle, the wolf, or the tiger, and are most dangerous
in times of anarchy or tempest. Hence the grand and striking features of
nature are at first looked upon with fear and dislike.
I do not suppose that Greeks different in the respect from other people,
except that the frequent occurrence of mountains and forests made
agriculture peculiarly difficult and intercourse scanty, thus increasing
their dislike for the apparently reckless waste in Nature. We have seen in
Homer a similar feeling as he regards the sea, — the sea that provided
the source of all their wealth and the condition of most of their national
greatness, as merely ungovernable and treacherous. The wild landscape
around him filled him with awe, and with vain, too certain, therefore,
easily understand, how in the first beginnings of cultivation, men,
compelled with endless labour and with few appliances to clear away the
natural obstructions of wild landscape and to make life possible and
vigorous in it those days was struggling with material nature to which it
fell a certain hardihood.
There were also the social circumstances of the Greeks to produce any
revolution in the pressure of their early hard days. The Greek republics
were small towns where the burden of life was not great. But as soon as
the days of the Greeks republics broke off, there then began to
congregate the larger number of men into Athens or Alexandria and the
enormous town life, which so speedily produced satiety, and that ennui
and turmoil breaking out into the natural longing for rural rest and
retirement so that.
…………Best Of Luck…………..
