MAN'S SOCIAL INSTINCT
Precis:Our life and actions are vitally linked with those of our fellow
creatures. Our food, clothes and houses are all prepared by others. We owe
language and beliefs to other people. They have been imparted to us through
language. Our intellectual facilities would not have grown in the absence of
language. We are superior to other animals in so far as we live in human society.
A man deprived of human society would behave like primitive animals. A
man's value is judged in relation to the great human community. The greater
his usefulness for his fellows, the better he is.
Example-12
Nations, like individual, derive support and strength from the feeling that
they belong to an illustrious race, that they are the heirs of their greatness and
ought to be promoters of their glory. It is of momentous importance that a
nation should have a great past to look back upon. It inspires the life of the
present, elevates and upholds it and enlightens and lifts it up, by the memory
of the great deeds, the noble sufferings and the marvelous achievements of the
old. The life of nations, as of men, is a great treasure of experience, which
wisely used, leads to social progress and improvement; or misused, to dreams,
delusion and failures. Like men nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
Some of the most glorious chapters in their history are those containing the
record of suffering by means of which their character has been developed.
Love of liberty and patriotic feeling may have done much, but trial and suffering
nobly borne have done more than all.
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