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Outlines:

1.      Introduction.

2.      Truth is many-sided.

3.      Two sides to political questions.

4.      Conclusion

There is a story told in verse about that curious kind of lizard called the chameleon. Two friends talking about it almost quarreled about its color one saying it was blue and the other swearing it was green. While they were arguing, a third man joined them and he said they were both wrong. He had caught a chameleon the night before, and it was black, All three went to see it, but when its captor took it out of the box where he had put it, lo and behold was not blue, or green, or black, but white.

The explanation of course, was that a chameleon has the stranger power of changing its color to suit its surroundings. So at one time it may appear blue, at another green, at another black, and at another white. So all were right, and at the same time wrong.

In the same way truth is many-side and different people see different sides. So every question has at least two sides. Narrow minded people can see only one side, and it take a broad-minded man to see both.

Consider the different ways in which different people will look at a social problem, say poverty. Some will say that poverty is entirely due to laziness, thriftlessness or strong drink. Let the poor work and save and keep sober, and there will be no more poverty. Other people will point out that idleness, thriftlessness and drunkenness are themselves the result of poverty the wretched circumstances in which the poor are brought up. So one party says, change the man and he will change his surroundings and the otlher says, change the surrounding and you will change the man. And then they quarrel and fight. Yet both are right, each sees one side of the question, but only one. A wise and broad-minded reformer will see both, and work both for the individual and for social reform.

Or, take plolitics, In most democratic countries there are two great parties which correspond to the Conservatives and Liberals or progressives in England. The conservative wants to keep (“conserve”) things as they are, fearing that any change will do more harm than good; the Liberal stands for reform, change and progress. Now both are in a way right. Because no social organization is perfect, we must reform abused, adopt better methods, and progress to better things, But it has often happened (as in the French Revolution) that, if people are in too great a hurry to make progress, they destroy many good institutions with the bad, and even wreck the whole constitution. But narrow-minded politicians of different view do not see this; and so, each seeing only his side of they question, the fight. A real statesman sees both.

Outline.

1.      Introduction.

2.      One who knows how to build castles in the air gets the best thrill.

3.      Achievements do not give us the joy which is proportionate to our effort.

4.      Fulfillment leads to frustration.

5.      Period preceding success is that of tension.

6.      Earthly people may hate day dreaming but only dreams give co lour and joy to life.

7.      Day dreams have super human powers.

Man is a pleasure loving animal. He wants diversity of enjoyments. His intelligence has certainly enabled to get a much greater variety of enjoyment that is open to animals. Music, poetry and science, football and baseball and alcohol and cigarettes some from which people of different temperaments and mental make-up derive pleasure. There are still others who undertake hazardous journeys on the uncharted ocean. Some of foolishly expose themselves to frost-bite and other inclemency of weather simply to be called conquerors of snowy peaks but the thrill-which these practical men get fails to stir their soul. Even if they simply profess, it transports them to some ethereal pleasure, no sensible person who experience the vast range of vicarious pleasure would believe them. In fact he who knows how to build castles in the air. The man engrossed in his visions may appear to some like an ineffectual angle beating wings in the luminous void. He may hold others in awe for his having been field on ‘Manna’ according to some whose wings have been clipped. But it is in such moment that he becomes what Adam and Eve were before they tasted the forbidden fruit.

It is perhaps owing to this ennobling effect of day dreams that we lose the capacity of dreaming while awake and we resort to somnolent drugs. Youths petrified by decadent affluent society which ensure security of life take forbidden drug like LSD so that they might become deaf to the confounding commotion around them. The whatever psychologist might attribute this mode of thinking of the youths, it is a fact that we all crave for pure pleasure which endows us with the capacity to forget the world of petty jealousies, inglorious competition and foolish ambition which wreck Macbeths. And it is in such moments that we become too human-neither bundle of inhibitions, nor indiscreet devils. A dream of every same man who does not long for extraneous pleasure and who does not build up his world of pleasures on the wreckage of others pleases. The pleasure thus got is something to be proud of and to be cherished for despite all the denunciation of the matter of fact people to whom two are four, neither three nor five. And such persons have that happy sensibility which does not let them look before and after and pine for what in naughty. Nor do their sweets songs tell of saddest thought. They see the charmed magic casements opening on the foam of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn’ far away from the world.

Where men sit and hear each other’s groan.

Where palsy shakes a few, sad grey hairs.

Where youth grows pale, specter him, and dies.

Where but to think is to be full of sorrow and lean eyes despairs.

Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, or new love pine at them beyond tomorrow.

 One man’s food is another man’s poison

Outlines.

1.      Introduction.

2.      Different tastes of individuals in the matter of food.

3.      Antipathies to butter and milk, mushrooms, eggs,etc.

4.      Diversity of tastes for all kinds of pleasure.

5.      There is no use disputing about tastes.

This proverb takes variety of taste in food as a typical illustration of the difference between man and man in susceptibility to various pleasures. We may first treat the question collectively and show that one nation’s food is another nation’s poison. Almost every country on the face of the earth has come peculiar delicacy, which would be rejected with loathing by the rest of the world. Some savage nations are or were cannibals, and it is said that, whenever this horrible custom prevails, human flesh is preferred to all other meat. The savages of Australia eat insects and grub; those of tiara del fuego the putrid, the putrid blubber of whales. The Esquimaux also live upon whale blubber, and supply themselves with vegetables out of the stomachs of dead reindeer. Herodotus, the Greek historian, mentions a tribe that subsisted upon lice or fir cones.

Among the great varieties of castes and tribes to be found in Pakistan, some are known to  eat serpents, and one low castle devours greedily the flesh of cattle that have died of disease. The Chinese are said to relish rotten egges, and they certainly regard soap made of particular kind of bird’s nest as a great delicacy. The ancient Romans were found of edible snails, and highly esteemed fish that were caught in the Tiber where the main drain of Rome flowed into the river. In modern Europe the Frenchman’s taste for frogs seems horrible and unnatural to ordinary Englishman.

If we now turn from the consideration of nation to individuals, we find the same diversity of taste in the matter of food. What is harmless and nutritious to ordinary men act like poison upon some peculiar constitutions. Thus there are persons who have such a strong antipathy to butter and eggs, or mushrooms, or milk that when they eat a dish partly composed of whichever of these is their particular antipathy, they become sick, even if they do not know beforehand what they are eating. These strange antipathies may be regarded as exaggerated forms of the likes and dislikes that manifest themselves whenever a party of human beings sit down to a social meal, though they may all being to the same country and the same class. Some like highly seasoned dishes, others prefer plain food. It is not every one who could relish boiled pork and veal pie with plums and sugar, although these were the dishes that Dr.johanson was especially fond of. Nearly every man has his own favorite fruit, vegetable, and drink. Some are too fond of wine, whereas others regard wine as poison and enjoy a cup of cold water.

There is the same diversity of tastes in a far more extended sphere than of eating and drinking. The hunger delights spending the whole day in the chase of wild beasts, and his pleasure is in comprehensible to those who have not natural inclination for the chase, and cannot understand why a man should go tramping over hill and dale in the hope of inflicting sever bodily pain on animals that have never done him any harm. Some have a taste for intellectual pleasures, other prefer active out door games. Some love public life, others are so constituted as to prefer to live in seclusion.

Even where there is a general similarity of tastes, there are strongly marked special differences. What a variety of taste, for instance, we find among the lovers of books. A few great writers have won the need of universal admiration; but with regard to second rate author, numberless volumes have been written by critics in support of their own especial favorites. Much of such controversial writing is wasted. Difference of taste generally depends upon permanent mental characteristic, which cannot be altered by reasoning or eloquent pleading, so that there is a great deal of truth in the adage, De gustibus non est disputandum(there is no use in disputing about tastes).