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It is to progress in the human sciences that we must look to undo the evils which have resulted from a knowledge of physical world hastily and superficially acquired by population unconscious of the changes in themselves that the new knowledge has imperative. The road to a happier world than any known in the past lies open before us if atavistic destructive passions can be kept in leash while the necessary adaptations are made. Fears are inevitable in time, but hopes are equally rational and far more likely to bear good fruit. We must learn to think rather less of the dangers to be avoided than of the good that will lie within our grasp if we can believe in it and let it dominate our thoughts. Science, whatever unpleasant consequences it may have by the way, is in its very nature a liberator, a liberator of bondage to physical nature and in time to come, a liberator from the weight of destructive passions. We are on the threshold of utter disaster or unprecedentely glorious achievement. No previous age has been fraught with problems so momentous; and it is to science that we must look to for a happy future.
If man's bestial yearning is controlled
Answer: Option B
Reason: The passage implies that if man's bestial (animal-like) yearning or destructive passions are controlled (kept in leash), the road to a happier future opens up. Therefore, option (B) suggests that the future will be brighter than the present if these destructive tendencies are restrained.
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Reason: The passage implies that if man's bestial (animal-like) yearning or destructive passions are controlled (kept in leash), the road to a happier future opens up. Therefore, option (B) suggests that the future will be brighter than the present if these destructive tendencies are restrained.
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