Show Till 101111 aAUOliitC A correspondent uki the following qutilloni When wn tho wood aguoitlo flr > t need and by whom and what Joel It 1 really meant Tocomniencewlth the U > tfUcnlloD the word agmntlc In I Ureek derived from the verb frtfnoiitfiii lo know and Iherrlvitlve altlolen rarreipendlng with the English un or Irlu word like unwlr Inhuman etc According 10 IU drrlvitlon the word would therefore siguily one who li 1I without knowledge It I applied however to one who f rofniM to know abtolute ly nothing but what has tern actually demouitrated and li I In tide tense only another name for a certain class of In fldeli The word good It I found In the Sep tuiglnl ai a Irauilalloii of the Hebrew iinAandal In the New Testament And denotei a lull knowledge ot the Ohio ritual and tenets of revealed religion Paul inintloui It among the iplrllual gilt Later It bolt this ilgnl flcallon and wn applied to the 10 culled higher knowledge which woo nothing Lutan admixture of heathen phlloMhy with Chrlitlin doctrine denoted an alleged mysterious Information Infor-mation hililu lu the letter of the written word and available only to a few ulrrlor mind whUetheeoumon people hd to be content with the literal lit-eral meaning of the worJi A Unoitlo WII one who profeued > to be In poiiei lion of thli hidden knowledge The term ijiaitlo li 1 the very oppoilte of Rnoitlo and denote one who reins believe not only the alleged hidden knowledge of the Onoitfci but ale the pliln revealed truth unlew this li capable of mathematical demonitra lion In thli moose the word li I of very recent origin It li I only withinthe Ilil decade that It baa obtained currency cur-rency lu our llteratuip About coven or eight yean ago If our memory li not at fault au Kngllili clergyman rev Michouochlu of Manchester attracted at-tracted tome attention by hli tendency to approach the Catholic church In the conlruveriy entued be itiUd that he did not believe In the dogma of the church anyway and that the rites were more or lent I farcical A trial for herny reiulted and during thli the term agnnitlo woo applied to him but whether the wood wai eifrclillr coined that time or had already obtained a lace In the vocabulary of theologian iptcUlliti muit determine |