ABSTRACT

Addison, Joseph The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Alighieri, Dante . . . to have heard without retaining does not make knowledge.

Clerke, Agnes M. . . . our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.