IBPS Clerk – IBPS CLERK TEST - 25

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Some words are given in bold so that you can locate them easily. <br><br> Civilisation, so far, has not succeeded in creating an environment suitable to mental and moral activities of mankind. The low intellectual and spiritual value of most human beings is largely due to deficiencies of their psychological atmosphere. The supremacy of matter and the dogmas of industrial religion have destroyed culture, beauty and morals. The immense spread of newspapers, cheap literature, radios and cinemas has contributed only to the degeneration of culture. Unintelligent is becoming more and more general, in spite of the course given in schools, colleges and universities. School children and students make up their minds on the silly programmes of public entertainment. Social environment, instead of favouring the growth of intelligence, opposes it with all its might. <br><br> Moral sense is almost completely ignored by modern society. We have, in fact, suppressed its <strong>manifestation</strong>. All are imbued with irresponsibility. Those who <strong>discern</strong> good and evil, who are industrious and provident, remain poor and are looked upon as <strong>morose</strong>. The woman who has several children, who devotes herself to their education instead of to her own career, is considered weak­minded. If a man saves a little money for his wife and the education of his children, this money is stolen from him by enterprising financiers or taken by the Government and distributed to those who have been reduced to want by their own improvidence and the short­sightedness of manufacturers, bankers and economists. Artists and men of science supply the community with beauty, health and wealth. They live and die in poverty. Robbers enjoy prosperity and peace. Gangsters are protected by politicians and respected by judges. They are the heroes whom children admire at the cinema and imitate in their games. A rich man has every right. He may discard his aging wife, abandon his old mother to penury, rob those who have entrusted their money to him, without losing the consideration of his friends. Sexual morals have been cast aside. Psychoanalysts supervise men and women in their conjugal relations. There is no difference between wrong and right, just and unjust. No one makes any objection to their presence. Ministers have rationalised religion. They have destroyed its mystical basis. But they do not succeed in attracting modern men. In their half­empty churches, they vainly preach a weak morality. They are content with the part of policemen, helping in the interest of the wealthy to preserve the framework of present society. Or, like politicians, they flatter the appetites of the crowd. <br><br> Men are powerless against such psychological attacks. They necessarily yield to the influence of their group. If one lives in the company of fools or criminals, one becomes a fool or criminal. Isolation is the only hope of salvation. But where will the inhabitants of the new city find <strong>solitude</strong>? Said Marcus Aurelius, 'No retreat is more peaceful or less troubled than that encountered by man in his own soul.' But we are not capable of such an effort. We cannot fight out social surroundings victoriously.

What is being rejected completely in the modern society?

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Some words are given in bold so that you can locate them easily. <br><br> Civilisation, so far, has not succeeded in creating an environment suitable to mental and moral activities of mankind. The low intellectual and spiritual value of most human beings is largely due to deficiencies of their psychological atmosphere. The supremacy of matter and the dogmas of industrial religion have destroyed culture, beauty and morals. The immense spread of newspapers, cheap literature, radios and cinemas has contributed only to the degeneration of culture. Unintelligent is becoming more and more general, in spite of the course given in schools, colleges and universities. School children and students make up their minds on the silly programmes of public entertainment. Social environment, instead of favouring the growth of intelligence, opposes it with all its might. <br><br> Moral sense is almost completely ignored by modern society. We have, in fact, suppressed its <strong>manifestation</strong>. All are imbued with irresponsibility. Those who <strong>discern</strong> good and evil, who are industrious and provident, remain poor and are looked upon as <strong>morose</strong>. The woman who has several children, who devotes herself to their education instead of to her own career, is considered weak­minded. If a man saves a little money for his wife and the education of his children, this money is stolen from him by enterprising financiers or taken by the Government and distributed to those who have been reduced to want by their own improvidence and the short­sightedness of manufacturers, bankers and economists. Artists and men of science supply the community with beauty, health and wealth. They live and die in poverty. Robbers enjoy prosperity and peace. Gangsters are protected by politicians and respected by judges. They are the heroes whom children admire at the cinema and imitate in their games. A rich man has every right. He may discard his aging wife, abandon his old mother to penury, rob those who have entrusted their money to him, without losing the consideration of his friends. Sexual morals have been cast aside. Psychoanalysts supervise men and women in their conjugal relations. There is no difference between wrong and right, just and unjust. No one makes any objection to their presence. Ministers have rationalised religion. They have destroyed its mystical basis. But they do not succeed in attracting modern men. In their half­empty churches, they vainly preach a weak morality. They are content with the part of policemen, helping in the interest of the wealthy to preserve the framework of present society. Or, like politicians, they flatter the appetites of the crowd. <br><br> Men are powerless against such psychological attacks. They necessarily yield to the influence of their group. If one lives in the company of fools or criminals, one becomes a fool or criminal. Isolation is the only hope of salvation. But where will the inhabitants of the new city find <strong>solitude</strong>? Said Marcus Aurelius, 'No retreat is more peaceful or less troubled than that encountered by man in his own soul.' But we are not capable of such an effort. We cannot fight out social surroundings victoriously.

The author thinks that in the modern civilisation

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Some words are given in bold so that you can locate them easily. <br><br> Civilisation, so far, has not succeeded in creating an environment suitable to mental and moral activities of mankind. The low intellectual and spiritual value of most human beings is largely due to deficiencies of their psychological atmosphere. The supremacy of matter and the dogmas of industrial religion have destroyed culture, beauty and morals. The immense spread of newspapers, cheap literature, radios and cinemas has contributed only to the degeneration of culture. Unintelligent is becoming more and more general, in spite of the course given in schools, colleges and universities. School children and students make up their minds on the silly programmes of public entertainment. Social environment, instead of favouring the growth of intelligence, opposes it with all its might. <br><br> Moral sense is almost completely ignored by modern society. We have, in fact, suppressed its <strong>manifestation</strong>. All are imbued with irresponsibility. Those who <strong>discern</strong> good and evil, who are industrious and provident, remain poor and are looked upon as <strong>morose</strong>. The woman who has several children, who devotes herself to their education instead of to her own career, is considered weak­minded. If a man saves a little money for his wife and the education of his children, this money is stolen from him by enterprising financiers or taken by the Government and distributed to those who have been reduced to want by their own improvidence and the short­sightedness of manufacturers, bankers and economists. Artists and men of science supply the community with beauty, health and wealth. They live and die in poverty. Robbers enjoy prosperity and peace. Gangsters are protected by politicians and respected by judges. They are the heroes whom children admire at the cinema and imitate in their games. A rich man has every right. He may discard his aging wife, abandon his old mother to penury, rob those who have entrusted their money to him, without losing the consideration of his friends. Sexual morals have been cast aside. Psychoanalysts supervise men and women in their conjugal relations. There is no difference between wrong and right, just and unjust. No one makes any objection to their presence. Ministers have rationalised religion. They have destroyed its mystical basis. But they do not succeed in attracting modern men. In their half­empty churches, they vainly preach a weak morality. They are content with the part of policemen, helping in the interest of the wealthy to preserve the framework of present society. Or, like politicians, they flatter the appetites of the crowd. <br><br> Men are powerless against such psychological attacks. They necessarily yield to the influence of their group. If one lives in the company of fools or criminals, one becomes a fool or criminal. Isolation is the only hope of salvation. But where will the inhabitants of the new city find <strong>solitude</strong>? Said Marcus Aurelius, 'No retreat is more peaceful or less troubled than that encountered by man in his own soul.' But we are not capable of such an effort. We cannot fight out social surroundings victoriously.

What does the author mean by saying, 'A rich man has every right'?