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Discuss the difference between host and the guest

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Bearbohm in his essay, “Hosts and Guests” expresses his views about hosts and guests. 
He
 says that mankind may be divided into two classes i.e., host and guest.
 According to him, in every human being, one of the two instincts 
dominates. Those who have the negative or passive instinct to accept it 
are the guests. There are many guests as there are hosts. 
The 
writer says that our deepest instincts, bad or good are those which we 
share with the rest of the animate creation. The difference between host
 and guest is based on circumstances or temperament. When a man asks the
 other to dine with him in a restaurant and the other agrees, one 
pays-for the food and the other enjoys it, they are host and the guest 
according to their role. 
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 Bearbohm thinks that mankind can be divided generally into
two categories: hosts and guests. The difference  between the two is not
only circumstantial and particular but also temperamental and general. Every human
being has either the positive and active instinct of being a host or the
negative and passive instinct of being a guest. Hosts are those who have the
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The quality
of hospitality is exclusively a human quality.It  has developed slowly with
the development of the civilization. The cavemen did not entertain others
because they were afraid of being killed by the hosts . The quality
of hospitality developed slowly as human beings were organized into groups and
the history of hospitality is full of painful incidents, the writer tells us
that though the Israelites were considered to be the salt of the world, yet the
treachery of the Jael was condemnable. </div>


 
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The
 Greeks cultured but Odysseus killed his guests under his own room and 
the Romans were at the peak of civilization in the 15th  century.
Borgias concealed poison in their cellars for their guests. But the 
Scotch s’
hospitality is proverbial. It was Scotland that first formed hospitality
 with
the basic principal that the guest must be honored .
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The
 writer says that it is conventional for
the rich to give and for the poor to take as a result of which the rich 
usually
become hosts and the poor  become the guests. But this cannot be
regarded as a rule because neither all the poor are guests nor all the 
rich are
a the hosts. Most of the time i\It is simply the matter of one’s’ 
temperament. A host as a  guest is far worse than the guest as a host.  
like other boys he himself was a guest by nature but he often
entertained his friends at the restau rant and was always afraid of the shortage
of the money in his pocket. He feels that the guests must be obliged to
their hosts but many times it is not so. Many guests  are often ungrateful
to their hosts. In every human being one or 
the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive 
instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to 
accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character 
that one might well say Kina is divisible into two great classes: hosts 
and guests.  
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