Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
The self-fulfillment
of the individual has itself become part of a larger, more embracing idea: the
self-fulfillment of man. We think of man as a species with special gifts, which
are the human gifts. Some of these gifts, the physical and mental gifts, are
elucidated for us explicitly by science; some of them, the aesthetic and
ethical gifts, we feel, and struggle to express in our mind: and some of them,
the cultural gifts, are unfolded for us by the study of history. The total of
these gifts is man as a type or species, and the aspiration of man as a species
has become the fulfillment of what is most human in these gifts.
The idea of
human self-fulfillment has also inspired scientific and technical progress. We
sometimes think that progress is illusory, and that the devices and gadgets which
became indispensible to civilized men in the last five hundred years are only a
self-propagating accumulation of idle luxuries.
Questions:
1. What is
the larger idea of which self-fulfillment of the individual has become a part?
2. Which human
gifts explicitly elucidated by science?
3. To express
what do we feel and struggle?
4. Which gifts
are unfolded by the study of history?
5. What does the
aspiration of man as a species constitute?
6. What does the
idea of human self-fulfillment inspire?
7. How do we now
react to progress and scientific devices?
