knowledge is power

THE MAN WHO KNOWS HAS AN ADVANTAGE OVER THE MAN WHO DOES NOT KNOW.ALTERNATION OF POWER BETWEEN THE EAST AND WEST.KNOWLEDGE COMES BUT WISDOM LINGER

                                                       Knowledge is power. This is true, when it is use for the human welfare Miseries and crimes may be the result of ignorance ,but, far more and worries are the effect of bad use of knowledge. Chemistry is a noble science. Should it be called a harmful science if it is used to invent poison gases to be let loose on women and children. It is a clear misuse of knowledge.

            The man who knows has an advantage over the man who does not know. By his medical knowledge, the physician can cure disease and save his patients life. But the blackmailer, by his knowledge of some guilty secret, can, bleed his victim under the thread of disclosure. In this way the educated classes have always been able to rule over the ignorant. During the middle ages in Europe, the only educated men were the priests. The ruling classes very often could not even read and write. They had to appoint priest as their minister and advisers. In the same way, and for the same reason, a handful of Europeans could control millions of African natives.

               In the earliest history, the east predominated because of their superior knowledge. The Muslims were then the torch-bearer of knowledge. Europe was then sunk in barbarism. But with the binging of the sixteenth century the west again became the leader of civilization. Western influence became dominant throughout the world. The establish their colonies in Asian and African countries. south Asia remained under the British control for more than a century. It was their superior knowledge, and the weapons, organization and character which that knowledge had given them, that made the white races superior to the east

                                                                 Said by some one Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers
He means that science has provided us with huge stock of knowledge but unfortunately it is not being put to right use. For example atomic power can be employed both for destructive and useful purpose. Its enormous potentialities to destroy life were demonstrated, when in August 1945 two atom bomb were adopted on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastation caused by them was unprecedented in the history of mankind. Of late, however ,scientist have been concentrating on harnessing atomic energy for purpose of human welfare. if we do not apply wisdom in the use knowledge, we shall miserably fail to achieve the desired object.

                                                                             physically, man is a comparative weak animal. He cannot naturally run like the horses nor fly like the birds he is no match in strength for the elephant, the lion or the bear. He has no natural weapon of defenses like the tiger s fangs and claws. Yet he conquers all these strong and fierce beast, and forces some of them to be his servents it is his superior knowledge and intelligence that make him the master of creature superior to him in physical strength