ABSTRACT

Perhaps, in one of the most forceful openings of a literary work of all time, Faust, or Doctor Faust, in Goethe’s well-known work, decries the futility of all his studies and endless scholarly endeavours in the following terms: I’ve studied now philosophy And jurisprudence, medicine, And even, alas! theology – From end to end, with labour keen; And here poor fool! With all my lore I stand, no wiser than before: 1