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Home Virtue If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Polly, July 2, 2013

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They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

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