The Iliad

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction since, from the very gra­dual character of our education, we must continu­ally forget, and emancipate ourselves from, know­ledge previously acquired we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire