Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. 
Most people, when asked what spiritual quality is needed to rebuild civilization, will reply ‘Love’. Love is a great force in private life, it is indeed the greatest of all things, but love in public affairs does not work it has been tried again and again and it has always failed. The idea that nations should love another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard, is absurd, unreal and dangerous. It leads us into perilous and vague sentimentalism. “Love is what is needed”, we chant and then sit back and the world goes on as before. The fact is we can love only what we know personally. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilizations; something much less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely, tolerance. Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. Yet this is the quality which is most needed. This is the sound state of mind which we are looking for. This is the only force which will enable different races and classes and interests to settle down together and work for a better future. The world is full of people, it has never been so full before and they are all tumbling over each 
other. Most of these people one doesn’t know and some of them one doesn’t like, either for their colour, or for their religion or for their way of living or for their clothes and so on. Well, what is one to do? If you don’t like the people, kill them, banish them proclaiming that you are the salt of the earth or put up with them as well as you can. Don’t try to love them, you can’t but to try to tolerate them. On the basis of that tolerance, a civilized future may be built.