Welcome to your LT Grade English MCQs Mock Test 28
Directions (28-31): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: "Strange, unfathomable happiness: happiness of thinking of seeking knowledge for its own sake. So much of our life is spent on solving problems to avoid immediate pain or to bring immediate profit, so much of our training aimed at bringing "practical" or "pragmatic" effects; designing and running machines, buying, selling, cooking, furnishing, investing, spending; so many worthy result attained by purposeful planning and directed thinking-that we forget how true and inexhaustible is the happiness of pure knowing. Everyone has tasted it. It is born in children. It goes to school with them, and is too often killed there by tired or "practical" teachers. But in some it survives, and unlike other delights it endures fo the whole of life. To spend fifty or sixty years in studying the structure of fishes, or the relation between logic and language, or the history of the Incas, or the routes of comets, or the geometry of non-Euclidean space, or the literature of Iceland, or the anatomy of the brain; to acquire and systemize and record new knowledge on any of these subjects without any expectation of benefiting mankind except by extending its range of understanding that is to pass a happy and valuable life, usually tempered at the close by regret that another fifty years could not be added in which to lean more and still more. It is the purest and least selfish satisfaction known to man, except those of creating a work of art and healing the sick. And it is, as Aristotle said, to share the activity of God Himself: his eternal life of pure contemplation." (Jharkhand TGT 2016) Question: 28. In terms of what, does the writer compare the search for knowledge with 'creating a work of art and healing the sick'?
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