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 Locke, William John

At the very same time the two schools were born into the modern world, and the re-proclamation of Theosophy, the supreme knowledge, was the answer from the invisible worlds to the nescience of Science.

From London Lectures of 1907 by Besant, Annie Wood

Still less was it a ground for rejoicing, or for supposing that the nescience to which it ought to have given rise could be legitimately exchanged for a metaphysical dogmatism.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand

It is therefore a science founded on nescience, and an art founded on artlessness.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

The plane of consciousness in which he had so long moved, with a memory running back five years and there ending in a blank wall of nescience, had made him cunning and shifty—necessarily so.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson