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Probably the only protection for contemporary man is to discover how to use his intelligence in the service of love and kindness. The training of human intelligence must include the simultaneous development of the empathic capacity. Only in this way can intelligence be made an instrument of social morality and responsibility- and thereby increase the chances of survival. The need to produce human beings with trained morally sensitive intelligence is essentially a challenge to educators and educational institutions. Traditionally, the realm of social morality was left to religion and the churches as guardians or custodians. But their failure to fulfil this responsibility and their yielding to the seductive lures of the men of wealth and pomp and power are documented by history of the last two thousand years and have now resulted in the irrelevant "God Is Dead” theological rhetoric. The more pragmatic men of power have had no time or inclination to deal with the fundamental problems of social morality. For them simplistic Machiavellianism must remain the guiding principle of their decisions - power is morality, morality is power. This over-simplification increases the chances of nuclear devastation. We must therefore hope that educators and educational institutions have the capacity, the commitment and the time to in-still moral sensitivity as an integral part of the complex pattern of functional human intelligence. Some way must be found in the training of human beings to give them the assurance to love, the security to be kind, and the integrity required for a functional empathy.

Solved Précis

The safeguard and existence of man lies in his ability to train and employ mental abilities for understanding feeling and emotion of others. Imparting moral intelligence is an uphill task for teachers. Customarily, moral education fell in the domain of religious people but, their surrender to worldly temptations caused people to disbelief in God. Similarly, politicians showed disinterest in morality and equated it with power. It can only be wished that teachers acknowledge importance of morality and sensitize human intelligence to basic human emotions.

(Word count = 84)

TITLE: Moral Intelligence – a key to human survival
Or
Training human intelligence in social morality

Total words in actual paragraph: 252
Words required after making précis: 252/3 = 84

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All the evil in this world is brought about by persons who are always up and doing, but do not know when they ought to be up and nor what they ought to be doing. The devil, I take it, is still the busiest creature in the universe, and I can quite imagine him denouncing laziness and becoming angry at the smallest waste of time. In his kingdom, I will bet, nobody is allowed to do nothing, not even for a single afternoon. The world, we all freely admit, is in a muddle, but I for one do not think that it is laziness that has brought it to such a pass. It is not the active virtues that it lacks but the passive ones: it is capable of anything but kindness and a little steady thought. There is still plenty of energy in the world(there never were more fussy people about), but most of it is simply misdirected. If ,for example, in July 1914, when there was some capital idling weather, everybody-- emperors, kings, archdukes, statesmen, generals, journalists, had been suddenly struck with an intense desire to do nothing, just to hang about in the sunshine and consume tobacco, then we should all have been much better off than we are now. But no, the doctrine of the strenuous life still went unchallenged; there must be no time wasted, something must be done. And, as we know, something was done. Again, suppose our statesmen, instead of rushing off to Versailles with a bundle of ill-digested notions and a great deal of energy to dissipate, had all taken a fortnight off, away from all correspondence and interviews and what not, and had simply lounged about on some hill side or other apparently doing nothing for the first time in their energetic lives, then they might have gone to their so-called Peace Conference and come away again with their reputations still unsoiled and the affairs of the world in good trim. Even at the present time, if half the politicians in Europe would relinquish the notion that laziness is a crime and go away and do nothing for a little space, we should certainly gain by it. Other examples come crowding into the mind. Thus, every now and then, certain religious sects hold conferences; but though there are evils abroad that are mountains high, though the fate of civilization is still doubtful, the members who attend these conferences spend their time condemning the length of ladies' skirts and the noisiness of dance bands. They would all be better employed lying flat on their backs somewhere, staring at the sky and recovering their mental health.

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People whose actions are devoid of good deeds, bring harm to the world. If activity alone was criteria of goodness, devil would have been the finest being in the universe. Not indolence, but actions in want of quality and direction are responsible for dilapidated condition of the world. In the past, wars and political miscalculations could have been avoided if politicians and statesmen had practiced restraint.

Inaction, even if practiced briefly by some politicians in contemporary Europe, could certainly benefit humanity. Similarly, meetings arranged by various religious organisation do not address the grave and gigantic problems faced by humanity; instead, participants in such meetings indulge in discussions over trivial subjects. Such kind of people will be better off resting at someplace than participating in worldly matters.

Total Words = 443
Words required after précis: 147
Actual words after précis: 136

Title: Indolence in Political and Religious Sphere – a panacea for Anarchy
Or
Indolence trumps actions in want of quality and direction

I have already posted solution of the precis form 2017 paper in a different thread so, I request the worthy admin to kindly delete that thread. I will be posting solutions of the past precis in this thread from now on.

hey,
is this precis solved by you?

Yes Sir. Is there something wrong?

Bro i had done it like this::


LAZINESS AND ITS VIRTUES
This world is in trouble only due to those who condemns laziness. Its potential is often mismanaged. For instance, world would be a better place after July 1914, if leaders decided to rest. Another time, instead of meeting up at Versailles, if they preferred a vacation it would be useful for the world. Currently it would be beneficial, if few European politicians subdue laziness. People devote their time in attending religious sermons, to criticize women clothing and dancing. It is necessary for them to improve their mental health.

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Culture, in human societies, has two main aspects; an external, formal aspect and an inner, ideological aspect. The external forms of culture, social or artistic, are merely an organized expression of its inner ideological aspect, and both are an inherent component of a given social structure. They are changed or modified when this structure. They are changed and modified when this structure is changed or modified and because of this organic link they also help and influence such changes in their parent organism. Cultural Problems, therefore, cannot be studied or understood or solved in isolation from social problems, i.e. problems of political and economic relationships. The cultural problems of the underdeveloped countries, therefore, have to be understood and solved in the light of larger perspective, in the context of underlying social problems. Very broadly speaking, these problems are primarily the problems of arrested growth; they originate primarily from long years of imperialist-Colonialist domination and the remnants of a backward outmoded social structure. This should not require much elaboration European Imperialism caught up with the countries of Asia, Africa or Latin America between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of them were fairly developed feudal societies with ancient traditions of advanced feudal culture. Others had yet to progress beyond primitive pastoral tribalism. Social and cultural development of them all was frozen at the point of their political subjugation and remained frozen until the coming of political independence. The culture of these ancient feudal societies, in spite of much technical and intellectual excellence, was restricted to a small privileged class and rarely intermingled with the parallel unsophisticated folk culture of the general masses. Primitive tribal culture, in spite of its child like beauty, had little intellectual content. Both feudal and tribal societies living contagiously in the same homelands were constantly engaged in tribal, racial and religious or other feuds with their tribal and feudal rivals. Colonialist – imperialist domination accentuated this dual fragmentation, the vertical division among different tribal and national groups, the horizontal division among different classes within the same tribal or national groups. This is the basic ground structure, social and cultural, bequeathed to the newly liberated countries by their former over lords.

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In human societies, there are two main facets of culture: extrinsic and intrinsic. The former is a manifestation of inner ideas. Both are an integral part of society and change as society changes. Any alteration in society causes change in these two characteristics which, in turn, effects the host species. Cultural problems in less developed countries, which originated with their colonization, are wedded to social issues and have to be understood in a broad social scenario. Societies in such countries were either feudal or tribal and their evolution ceased with colonization. In countries, where these two segments co-existed, they engaged in disputes over different issues. Colonialism deepened the chasm between them. Thus, colonists left a disintegrated society in countries where they ruled.

Title

Cultural Issues in Underdeveloped Countries: a legacy of Colonialism

Or

Effect of Colonization on Culture

Required words = 362/3 = 120
Words after making precis = 122


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