SPEED TEST EXERCISE NO.

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Charity is a great virtue. Our ancient philosoh\phers and religious teachers have all laid stress on
charity. It is, of course, very noble in man to give away things to those who do not have them. But,
in practice, often the giving does not help the receiver. he is lible to become extravagant and idle if
he gets regular charity. he loses his individuality and he humiliates himself for getting favours
from others. he has to devise fresh means every day of cheating people into the belief that he
deserved their favours. Manu beggars are imposters. They exzhibit physical defects while they
have none. There are also some professional beggars who employ crippled and othe people for
begging on a small salary.
Charity has an equally bad effect on those who give. They are liable to become proud and develop
a love of flattery. Their critical faculty tends to become low. They fail to differentiate between the
good and tha dad. Some persons give charity from selfish motives. They give alms that they may
receive public honours and acquire a place in society. They are insensible of human sufferings.
They are selfish, not charitable; self seekers, not generous. SPEED TEST EXERCISE NO. 23
Cottage industries do not consist of foreing element in the pattarn of our country. In fact, they are
the essential part of it. They are in no way opposed to the large scale industries. On the contrary,
they serve to supplement them. In these industries a national economy.
Cottage industries are those which are pursued in the hmes and cottages of the people. They thrive
in a home by the members of the family providing capital and labour. In cottage industries on
machinery employed. They mean small scale industries which require no large capital outlay,
complicated machinery or big organisation. Though operated by hands, these industries permit the
use of a limited amount of power and machinery. Thu cottage industries combine simplicity with
beauty, though the products are not always cheap.
Only a dogmatist can advocate the exclusive clims of either cottage or large scale industries. A
modern contry which aspires to a prosperous existence cannot affort to do without large scale
industries at least in some specified fields. in certanin industries, the use of small scale methods is
ruled out. In mining, in ship building, in manufacture of locomotive rolling stock, in armament
industries, it is absolutely essential to have large scale organisation. But our industrial
development, at the sme thime, should not take place at the expense of small scale industries, the
loss of which will be entirely unfourtunate. The small scale workers produce fine products out o
their primitive in fine products out of their primitive instruments.