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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #1220 Social life
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My  conception  of  social  life  is  modest,  for  it  makes  no  demands  on  what  we  have,  though  it  does  make  some  on  what  we  are.  Interest,  wonder,  sympathy,  and  love,  the  first  two  leading  to  the  last  two,  are  the  psychological  prerequisites  for  social  life;  and  the  need  for  the  first  two  must  not  be  .  We  cannot  make  the  most  even  of  our  intimate  social  life  unless  we  are  able  to  make  strangers  of  our  oldest  friends  everyday  by  discovering  unknown  areas  in  their  personality,  and    them  into  new  friends.  In  sum,  social  life  is  a  function  of  vitality.  It  is  tragic,  however,  to  observe  that  it  is  these  very  natural    of  social  life,  which  are  drying  up  among  us.  It  is  becoming  more  and  more  difficult  to  come  across  fellow  feeling  for  human  beings  as  such  in  our  society    and  in  all  its  strata.  In  the  poor  middle  class  I  have  hardly  seen  any  social  life  properly  so-called.  Not  only  has  the  grinding    of  making  a  living  killed  all  desire  for  it  in  them,  it  has  also  generated  a  standing  mood  of  peevish  hostility  to  other  human  beings.  Increasing  economic  distress  in  recent  years  has  infinitely  worsened  this  state  of  affairs,  and  has  also  brought  sinister  addition  -  class  hatred.  Indeed  they  feel  most    when  they  form  a  pack,  and  snarl  or  howl  at  people  who  are  better  off  than  they.

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