nescience

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It is not difficult to detect the fallacies in this argument of Spencer for religious nescience.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

But total negation is not the result,—only nescience.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

The question was a marvel of innocent nescience.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank

Living here means nescience simply; 'tis next life that helps to learn.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

All attempt at concealment implies some practice of the opposite, or undivine science, founded on nescience.

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