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A pessimist might argue:why seek to preserve the human species? Should we no
A pessimist might argue:why seek to preserve the human species? Should we no
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2025-05-07
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A pessimist might argue:why seek to preserve the human species? Should we not rather rejoice in the prospect of an end to the immense load of suffering and hate and fear which has hitherto darkened the life of Man? Should we not contemplate with rejoicing anew future for our planet, peaceful at last, sleeping quietly at last after coming to the end of the long nightmare of pain and horror?
To any student of history contemplating the dreadful record of folly and cruelty and misery that has constituted most of human life hitherto, such questions must come in moments of imaginative sympathy. Perhaps our survey may tempt us to acquiesce in an end, however tragic and however final, to a species so incapable of joy.
But the pessimist has only half of the truth and to my mind the less important half. Man has not only the correlative capacities for cruelty and suffering, but also potentialities of greatness and splendor, realized, as yet, very partially, but showing what life might he in a freer and happier world. If Man will allow himself to grow to his full stature, what he may achieve is beyond our present capacity to imagine. Poverty, illness, and loneliness could become rare misfortunes. Reasonable expectation of happiness could dispel the night of fear in which too many now wander lost And with the progress of evolution, what is now the shining genius of an eminent few might become a common posses sion of the many. All this is possible, indeed, probable, in the thousands of centuries that lie before us, if we do not rashly and madly destroy ourselves before we have reached the maturity that should he our goal. No, let us not listen to the pessimist, for, if we do, we are traitors to Man’s future. [br] What is the author’s attitude towards Man’s future?
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The author sees Man’s future in an optimistic.happy and.hopeful attitude.
解析
本文一开始就提出了悲观主义者对人类未来的态度,然后加以反驳,并且本文结尾“let us not listento the pessimist”说明作者的态度是乐观积极的。
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