Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below:
Great books are popular, not pedantic.
They are not written by specialists about specialisties for specialists.
Whether they be philosophy or science, history or poetry, they treat of human,
not academic problems. They are written for men, not professors. To read a text
book for advanced students, you have to read an elementary text book first. But
the great books can be considered elementary in the sense that they treat the
elements of any subject matter. They are not related to one another as a series
of text books, graded in difficulty or in the technicality or the problems with
which they deal.
Questions:
(i) Why are great books not pedantic?
(i) What type of reading is necessary first
to read a text book for advanced students?
(iii) Why are great books considered
elementary?
(iv) What are not related to one another as a
series of text books?
(v) Give the opposite meaning of the
following words:
elementary, popular.
