nescience

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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 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

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

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

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

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