MAH-CET 2025 — English PYQ

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The present industrial age is steadily placing into out hands power and instruments which are expected to relieve us of mechanical drudgery and give us more time for cultural and artistic pursuits. Machines have undoutitedly lightened human toil, but have also added somewhat to human misery. Modern industrialization based a minute subdivision of labor has rebbed the worker of the sense of beauty and craft. The craftsman has become a mechanic, a mere tool for the ends of greater production The development of intelligence and character which skillful creative work produces now sought in other activities. The workers seek their pleasure outside their work. They claim higher wages and more leisure and opportunities for recreation and relaxation. But the leisure won aftar so much effort is wasted in costly amusements. Leisure is seldom used for the noble pursuits of the mind. Besides, the industrial age has made us worshipers of wealth. In the social hierarchy, anyone who has the luck or the ability to make money occupies a high place. Before the industrial revolution, we had different standards of social valuation. Saints, men of learning, poets and philosophers were at the top of the social scale. The days when human values like honesty, sympathy, understanding justice and service were considered the most desirable qualities in man are over. Money making has become one of the most popular industries of the modern world and material progress has resulted in the creation of new wants. The consumer's appetite grows by what it feeds on. To want more and to get more is the way of material progress. By means of this exciting competition we are concealing from ourselves the barrenness of life,
The most serious consequence of the industrial movement is the passing away of the home. We see it in many western countries. Parents pursue their own pleasures with little consideration of their duties to children. The poverty of an empty life drives children into undesintile channels. Unless some corrective measures adopted to reverse this trend, we may see in the not so distant future a total disintegration of the family
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