Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Most of the people who appear most often in history books are great conquerors and generals strangely enough the poeple who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who made the first boat or calculated the length of the year but we know all about killers and destroyers. We raise statues to them simply because they fought bravely. But even animals . So do savages. To is not to be civilized. Moreover, there are other ways of setting quarrels among men and nations. So really civilized people have been those who have brought peace and happiness to mankind. They have been prophets, saints, doctors, inventors and discoveres. They have been really great since instead of inflicting pain and hardship upon humanity, they have healed their wounds. Instead of ***, they have saved human lives. They are really civilized and deserve our admiration and respect.
(a) Who are the people that generally appear in history books ?
(b) Is fighting a mark of civilization ?
(c) Who are truly civilized ?
(d) Why do they deserve our admiration and respect ?
