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Tashiro Posted 16 years ago
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What does "this creed" mean?
Hi, teachers. Please help me.
"Belief in a cause is a source of happiness to large numbers of people. I am not thinking only of revolutionaries, socialists, nationalists in oppressed countries, and such; I am thinkng also of many humbler kinds of belief. The men I have known who believed that the English were the lost ten tribes were almost invariably happy, while as for those who believed that the English were only the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, their bliss knew no bounds. I am not suggesting that the reader should adopt this creed, since I cannot advocate any happiness based upon what seem to me to be false beliefs."
What does "this creed" mean? My guess it is "belief in a cause is a source or happiness to large numbers of people".
"Belief in a cause is a source of happiness to large numbers of people. I am not thinking only of revolutionaries, socialists, nationalists in oppressed countries, and such; I am thinkng also of many humbler kinds of belief. The men I have known who believed that the English were the lost ten tribes were almost invariably happy, while as for those who believed that the English were only the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, their bliss knew no bounds. I am not suggesting that the reader should adopt this creed, since I cannot advocate any happiness based upon what seem to me to be false beliefs."
What does "this creed" mean? My guess it is "belief in a cause is a source or happiness to large numbers of people".
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I understand it to mean the belief that the English were only the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.
- I understand it to mean the belief that the English were only the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.
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I understand it to mean the belief that the English were only the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.
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