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Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. |
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.- Francis of Assisi
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
