nescience
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It is a nescience whereby human aspirations are cribbed within ruled lines and made to balance on the opposite side.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
The question was a marvel of innocent nescience.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
The so-called science that assumes or undertakes to do that, is materialism and nescience.
From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck
But total negation is not the result,—only nescience.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
But all other sciences and arts, except this, have for their object the doing away with their opposite nescience and artlessness.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin
