Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : 

The last half of my life has been lived in one of those painful epochs of 

human history during which the world is getting worse, and past victories 

which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. 

When I was young. Victorian optimism was taken for granted would speed 

thought Torah ado more real Yom that nudge porous aperitif It was world 

by an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice 

would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was haunted by the fear of 

great wars Hardly anyone thought of the nineteenth century as a brief 

interlude between past and future barbarism. 

The author feels sad about the later pan of his life because?

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: 

The last half of my life has been lived in one of those painful epochs of 

human history during which the world is getting worse, and past victories 

which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. 

When I was young. Victorian optimism was taken for granted would speed 

thought Torah ado more real Yom that nudge porous aperitif It was world 

by an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice 

would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was haunted by the fear of 

great wars Hardly anyone thought of the nineteenth century as a brief 

interlude between past and future barbarism. 

The victories of the past?

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: 

The last half of my life has been lived in one of those painful epochs of 

human history during which the world is getting worse, and past victories 

which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. 

When I was young. Victorian optimism was taken for granted would speed 

thought Torah ado more real Yom that nudge porous aperitif It was world 

by an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice 

would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was haunted by the fear of 

great wars Hardly anyone thought of the nineteenth century as a brief 

interlude between past and future barbarism. 

The word ‘definitive’ as used in the passage means?

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: 

The last half of my life has been lived in one of those painful epochs of 

human history during which the world is getting worse, and past victories 

which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. 

When I was young. Victorian optimism was taken for granted would speed 

thought Torah ado more real Yom that nudge porous aperitif It was world 

by an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice 

would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was haunted by the fear of 

great wars Hardly anyone thought of the nineteenth century as a brief 

interlude between past and future barbarism. 

The word ‘Temporary’ antonym is?

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: 

The last half of my life has been lived in one of those painful epochs of 

human history during which the world is getting worse, and past victories 

which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. 

When I was young. Victorian optimism was taken for granted would speed 

thought Torah ado more real Yom that nudge porous aperitif It was world 

by an orderly process, and it was hoped that cruelty, tyranny, and injustice 

would continually diminish. Hardly anyone was haunted by the fear of 

great wars Hardly anyone thought of the nineteenth century as a brief 

interlude between past and future barbarism. 

During the Victorian age, people believed that?