Columbia College Commencement 1889 Baccalaureate Sermon Preached in St Thomas
Columbia College Commencement 1889 Baccalaureate Sermon Preached in St Thomas
Henry Codman Potter
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There are those to whom knowledge, culture, training, of whatever sort, is sim- ply an introduction to the realm of wisdom and the domain of truth. And there are others, and it is to be feared that they are the great majority of educated people, in whom the pursuit of a particular study or group of studies has simply issued in such a contrac- tion of the intellectual vision that they have come, in a little while, to limit the sphere of worthy knowledge to their own narrowed horizon. Worse than ...this, there are those to whom knowledge itself has come in time to mean that which may be known only in one way, 6 BACCALAUREATE SERMON. and verified only by tme set of faculties, and whose dogmatism is in inverse ratio to the range of their enquiries or their attainments. It is this tendency which in our generation has parted, or has threat- ened to part, the scientific and the philosophic mind, which has tended, and is tending more and more, to reduce the knowledge, yes, and the faith and the aspirations of man, to what may be weighed in a pair of scales and labelled and arranged in a cabinet of specimens.
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