nescience

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This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience; otherwise the science itself is impossible.

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

And what are all these gloomy and rebellious infidelities, these touching, and too sincere confessions of universal nescience, but a protest against this ancient law of Death?

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

The question was a marvel of innocent nescience.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank

Simple nescience is not proud; consummated science is positively humble.

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

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

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