The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people.
The speaker claims that great advances in knowledge necessarily involve rejection of authority. To the extent that political authority impedes such advances, I agree with this claim. Otherwise, in my view most advances in knowledge actually embrace certain forms of authority, rather than rejecting authority out of hand.
One striking example of how political authority can impede the advancement of knowledge involves what we know about the age and evolution of planet Earth. In earlier centuries, specially during the dark ages in Europe, scientific advancement and gathering of new knowledge was controlled by rulers and often this hindered the improvement of the standard of living of the people. years. If Western thinkers had continued to yield to the ostensible authority of the Church, the fields of structural and historical geology would never have advanced beyond the blind acceptance of this contention as fact. This would mean that we would still believe in the flat earth society, as a result of which travelers and explorers would not have discovered new lands that has led to the development of the human civilization today.
A more modern example of how yielding to political authority can impede the advancement of knowledge involves the Soviet Union movement of the 1920s. During this time period the Soviet government attempted not only to control the direction and the goals of its scientists' research but also to distort the outcome of that research. During the 1920s the Soviet government quashed certain areas of scientific inquiry, destroyed entire research facilities and libraries, and caused the sudden disappearance of many scientists who were engaged in research that the state viewed as a potential threat to its power and authority. Not surprisingly, during this time period no significant advances in scientific knowledge occurred under the auspices of the Soviet government.
However, given a political climate that facilitates free thought and honest intellectual inquiry, great advances in knowledge can be made by actually embracing certain forms of "authority." A good example involves modern computer technology. Only by building on, or embracing, certain well-established laws of physics were engineers able to develop silicon-based
semi-conductor technology. Although new biotechnology research suggests that organic, biochemical processors will replace artificial semi-conductors as the computers of the future, it would be inappropriate to characterize this leap in knowledge as a rejection of authority.
In sum, to the extent that political authority imposes artificial constraints on knowledge, I agree that advances in knowledge might require rejection of authority. Otherwise, in my observation advances in knowledge more typically embrace and build on authoritative scientific principles and laws, and do not require the rejection of any type of authority.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 380, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Years
...f the standard of living of the people. years. If Western thinkers had continued to y...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, so, still, well, as a result, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 19.6327345309 25% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2492.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 439.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.67653758542 5.12650576532 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.21077544023 2.78398813304 115% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519362186788 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 782.1 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.0258107051 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.75 119.503703932 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4375 23.324526521 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.625 5.70786347227 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0338313855387 0.218282227539 15% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0127786216728 0.0743258471296 17% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0204752099687 0.0701772020484 29% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0161260133735 0.128457276422 13% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0161704983339 0.0628817314937 26% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.0 14.3799401198 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 27.15 48.3550499002 56% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.1628742515 181% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.96 12.5979740519 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.32208582834 113% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 98.500998004 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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