Prelims 2024 • Paper 2 (CSAT) • Q.32

Prelims 2024Paper 2 (CSAT) • Q.32
PrelimsPaper 2 (CSAT)2024 • Q.32
CSAT
Reading Comprehension Passage / Context

Directions for the following 4 (four) items: Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only. Passage-1 "The history of science is the real history of mankind." In this striking epigram, a nineteenth-century writer links science with its background. Like most epigrams, its power lies in emphasizing by contrast an aspect of truth which may be easily overlooked. In this case, it is easy to overlook the relations between science and mankind, and to treat the former as some abstract third party, which can sometimes be praised for its beneficial influences, but frequently and conveniently blamed for the horrors of war. Science and mankind cannot be divorced from time to time at men's convenience. Yet we have seen that, in spite of countless opportunities of improvement, the opening years of the present period of civilization have been dominated by international conflict. Is this the inevitable result of the progress of science or does the fault lie elsewhere?

Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:

1
The horrors of modern life are the inevitable result of the progress of science.
2
The aspect of truth likely to be overlooked is that science is what man has made it.
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