PASSAGE 41 An important aspect of the growth of modern towns and cities is the increasing population density. Mr J. P. Orr, the honorable Chairman of the Mumbai Improvement Trust, pointed out in a recent lecture on the subject, how it affected the health and prosperity of the inhabitants. Life

PASSAGE 40 As my train was not due to leave for another hour, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some magazines to read on the journey, I made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase I had left there three days before. There

PASSAGE 39 Antigone was one of the daughters of Oedipus, that tragic figure of male power who had been cursed by gods for mistakenly killing his father and subsequently marrying his mother and assuming the throne of Thebes. After the death of Oedipus, civil war broke out and a battle

PASSAGE 38 I notice nowadays a little girl at home always playing the school-game in a corner of the verandah but never without a flat, wooden foot-rule in hand which she flourishes menacingly at the pupils assembled in her phantasmagoric classroom. On investigation I found that the cane being discredited,

PASSAGE 37 The dog is a very intelligent animal and it can be trained for many duties. Some dogs work with the police and the army as sentries and trackers, and there are medals that are awarded to dogs for bravery in action. Other dogs act as seeing-eyes for the

PASSAGE 36 The avowed purpose of the exact sciences is to establish complete intellectual control over experience in terms of precise rules which can be formally set out and empirically tested. Could that ideally be fully achieved, all truth and all error could henceforth be ascribed to an exact theory

PASSAGE 35 We are tempted to assume that technological progress is real progress and that material success is the criterion of civilization. If the eastern people become fascinated by machines and techniques and use them, as western nations do, to build huge industrial organizations and large military establishments, they will

PASSAGE 34 Although speech is the most advanced form of communication, there are many ways of communicating without using speech. Signals, signs, symbols and gestures may be found in every known culture. The basic function of a signal is to impinge upon the environment in such a way that it

PASSAGE 33 As low tide he walked over the sands to the headland and round the corner to the little bay facing the open sea. It was inaccessible by boat because seams of rock jutted out and currents swirled around them treacherously. But you could walk there if you chose

PASSAGE 32 We all know that Eskimos have 50 different words for snow. Or is it 500? Anyway, an awful lot. It is one of those interesting little facts that say something about the amazing in-genuity of humans. Whereas we see snow, the Eskimos perceive an endlessly varying realm of