With reference to the above passage, the following assumptions have been made: 1. The author gives primary importance to physical and material help in eradicating human misery. 2. Charitable homes, hospitals, etc., can remove human misery to a great extent. Which of the assumptions is/are valid?

Passage

The miseries of the world cannot be cured by physical help only. Until man’s nature changes, his physical needs will always arise, and miseries will always be felt, and no amount of physical help will remove them completely. The only solution to the problem is to make mankind pure. Ignorance is the mother of evil and of all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated; then alone will misery cease in the world. We may convert every house in the country into a charitable asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but human misery will continue until man’s character changes.

Question

CSATEasyPrelims 2013Comprehension

With reference to the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:

The author gives primary importance to physical and material help in eradicating human misery.
Charitable homes, hospitals, etc., can remove human misery to a great extent.

Which of the assumptions is/are valid?

Explanation

Statement 1 is incorrect. It misrepresents the author’s perspective by giving undue importance to physical help, which the author explicitly downplays.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Because the passage directly refutes the idea that charitable homes and hospitals can substantially reduce misery.