TS ICET 27th July 2022 Shift-2

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We are now face to face with class conflicts. There has grown up an intense class consciousness with elements of suspicion and hatred, envy and jealousy. Democracy is so interpreted as to justify not only the very legitimate aspiration to bring a more equitable distribution of wealth, but also the increasing tendency for a levelling down of all talent. This is not possible. There win always be man of ability who lead and direct, and others who win obey and follow. It is not true that all men are born equal in every way, and everyone is equally fit to govern the country or till the ground. Every line of development is specific and exclusive. If we wish to pursue one we shall have to turn our attention away from others. While we should remove the oppressive restrictions, dispel the ignorance of the masses, increase their self-respect, we should not be under the illusion that we can abolish the distinctions of the genius and the fool, the able organized and the submissive worker. Modern democracies tend to make us all mere 'human beings',but such beings exist nowhere.

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The other day, a motoristic friend of mine was complaining to me bitterly even violently, about the behaviour of pedestrians. They were abominably careless and stupid, he insisted. I hate to see anyone agitated by a grievance, and I tried to soothe my friend by an appeal to reason. I said, 'No doubt we pedestrians are very trying. But you must remember that, after all, we were on the roads for many, many centuries before you came along in your splendid car. And remember, it isn't we that are threatening to kill you. It is you that are threatening to kill us, and, if the worst comes to the worst, lay some flowers on our graves.

We are constantly told by the press that we must be 'traffic-conscious'. But there is really no need to tell us we must be so. How could we be otherwise? How not be concussion-apprehensive, annihilation-evasive, and similar compound words? Very old people and very young people form the majority of those who are annually slaughtered upon our roads.