Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow A vexed enemy of mankind, as people have discovered, is not science, but war since…
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Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow
A vexed enemy of mankind, as people have discovered, is not science, but war since science merely reflects
the prevailing social forces. It is found that when there is peace, science is conservative, when there is war,
and science is perverted to destructive ends. The weapons which science gives do not necessarily cause war,
they make war increasingly terrible. Till now, it has brought us to the doorstep of doom. Our main problem,
therefore, is not to curb science, but to stop war - to substitute law for force, international government for
anarchy in the relations of one nation with another.
That is a job in which everybody must participate including the scientists. But the bombing of Hirosima
suddenly woke us up to the fact that we have very little time. The hour is late, and our work has scarcely
begun. Now we are face to face with an urgent question --- 'Can education and tolerance, understanding and
creative intelligence run fast enough to keep us abreast with our own mounting capacity to destroy?' This is
the question which we shall have to answer one way or the other in our generation. Science must help us in
arriving at the answer, but the main decision lies within ourselves.
a. Extract the topic sentence from the paragraph above. Is the topic sentence in the normal position?
b. Why do you think that is the topic sentence which you have chosen?
c. Does the writer provide sufficient evidence(s) and reason(s) to support the major claim?