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Old Friday, May 02, 2014
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Please make the precis of the following passage, giving it a suitable title/ heading.

"To have faith in the dignity and worth of the individual man as an end in himself to believe that it is better to be governed by persuasion than by coercion that fraternal goodwill is more worthily than a selfish and contentions spirit, to believe that in the long run all values are inseparable from the love of truth and the disinterested search for it, to believe that knowledge and the power it confers should be used to promote the welfare and happiness of all men, rather than to serve the interests of those individuals and classes whom fortune and intelligence endow with temporary advantage. These are the values which are affirmed by the traditional democratic ideology. The case of democracy that it accepts the rational and human values as ends and proposes as the means of we may well abandon the cosmological temple in which the democratic ideology originally enshrined these values without renouncing the the faith, it was designed to celebrate. The essence of that faith is belief in the capacity of man as a rational and humane creature to achieve the good life by rational and humane means. The chief virtue of democracy and the sole reason for cherishing it is that with all its faults, it still provides the most conditions for achievement that end by those means."
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