Q1. Make a precis of the given passage, and also give a suitable heading
‘The official name of our species is homo sapiens; but there are many anthropologists who prefer to think of man as homo Fabcr-thc smith, the maker of tools It would be possible. I think, to reconcile these two definitions in a third. If man is a knower and an efficient doer, it is only because he is also a talker In order to be Faber and Sapiens, Homo must first be loquax, the loquacious one. Without language we should merely be hairless chimpanzees. Indeed \vc should be something much worse. Possessed of a high IQ but no language, we should be like the Yahoos of Gulliver’s Travels- Creatures too clever to be guided by instinct, too Self-centered to live in a state of animal grace, and therefore condemned forever, frustrated and malignant, between contented ape hood and aspiring ‘humanity. It was language that made possible the accumulation of knowledge and the broadcasting of information. It was language that permitted the expression of religious insight, the formulation of ethical ideals, the codification to laws, It was language, in a word, that turned us into human beings and gave birth to civilization.
Solved Precis of CSS 2002
Title: Role of language in human civilization
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Language-a source of man’s superiority
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Language-a source of man’s civilization
Language plays a vital role in differentiating man from other species. It is not intelligence that makes man superior to others but language that does this so. Besides this, language plays a vital role in acquiring and transferring knowledge. If language would not there man would be even worse than animals. It is, therefore, language that makes man civilized, religious, and ethical.