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It is a strange fact that the more perfect do we make travelling, the more tedious does it become—I wonder whether the same may not apply to almost all progress in civilization.
The most primitive aspect of travel is that of walking, and even upon the most tedious of walks the exercise itself seldom degenerates into definite boredom, one is never far away from one's fellow men, yet even if one is quite alone the mere fact of walking is an occupation which cannot be despised; of riding similar things may be said. Coaching may have had its inconveniences, yet a coach drive cannot have been lacking in definite interest. One was in very close contact with one's fellow passengers, coaching made as strange bedfellows as any adversity, and the journey was seldom so short that one could enjoy a sort of snuffy insulation from one's fellows--mutual discomforts, even mutual terrors of footpads made a definite bond of humanity.
It is true that in all these primitive processes the act of getting from here to there is prolonged - perhaps extremely prolonged - but mere duration is not tedium. If the act itself is interesting and vivid then the act itself is worth- while. To-day the act of travelling by a fast train is scarcely worthwhile -the traveler can almost count it out as so much time lost out of life.
What is missing to-day from the act of travelling - and what lacks from much modern civilization - is the expectation of the unexpected; the sense of adventure, the true sauce of life. Now to have the true sense of adventure it is not necessary that one should always be expecting to meet a lion round the corner. Any little thing will do, anything not before experienced, anything that will give the imagination that extra fillip of interest which will convince it that the world will always remain a Fortunate’s purse of new things to learn, anything that will make positive the fact that the act of living is also the act of growing,--anything of this nature will contribute to the sense of adventure.
But the trend of civilization to-day is that all these little interests are being quietly but very effectively crushed: we fling them beneath the wheels of railway trains and into the cogs of factories, with the result that only those experiences which are too large for us to fling thus are allowed to flourish. We have, in fact, almost cleared away the little things and left only the big. Now, if we turn the corner, either there is nothing at all or, in one case out of a hundred, we find the lion.

 

  1. Walking - A better pleasure than travelling by train

  2. The pitfalls of progress

  3. Becoming more civilized makes us more mechanical

  4. Why we do not need progress

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B Correct answer
Explanation

The passage (through the example of travelling) shows that the more we progress the more we are losing out on the simple pleasures of life. Progress has made us lose out on the sense of adventure according to the author.

This answer choice is correct. The passage tells that as we progress more and more we are losing out on the simple pleasures (Refer to last line of first paragraph - “.....may not apply to all progress in civilization”).