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What is true knowledge? is it with keen eye Of lucre’s sons to thread the mazy way? Is it of civil rights, and royal sway, And wealth political, the depth to try? Is it to delve the earth, to soar the sky? To marshal nations, tribes in just array; To mix, and analyze, and mete, and weigh Her elements, and all her powers descry? These things, who will may know them, if to know Breed not vain glory; but, o’er all, to scan God in His works, and word shown forth below, Creation’s wonders; and Redemption’s plan Whence came we; what to do, and whither go; This is true knowledge, and the whole of man.
What is true knowledge? is it with keen eye Of lucre’s sons to thread the mazy way? Is it of civil rights, and royal sway, And wealth political, the depth to try? Is it to delve the earth, to soar the sky? To marshal nations, tribes in just array; To mix, and analyze, and mete, and weigh Her elements, and all her powers descry? These things, who will may know them, if to know Breed not vain glory; but, o’er all, to scan God in His works, and word shown forth below, Creation’s wonders; and Redemption’s plan Whence came we; what to do, and whither go; This is true knowledge, and the whole of man.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop Mant (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 347 · printed citation: Bishop Mant · subject: KNOWLEDGE
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