| Show NOT MATTER OF KNOWLEDGE Person May Be Thoroughly Conversant Conversant Conver Conver- sant cant With Facts and Yet Remain Remain Remain Re- Re main Ignorant Some people think that Ignorance Is ie merely an accumulation of facts But that h hypothesis reveals a lack of Im im- Ignorance any more than knowledge Is not con concerned with facts It Is concerned quite largely with feeling and feeling Is the product product prod prod- of ones one's general Intelligence The Huns had plenty of facts at their disposal but they were Ignorant Their feeling was not Intelligently dis dla- distributed distributed I over certain areas of their national national na na- consciousness This Is true more or less of all aU of ofus ofus ofus us Thomas L. L Mason writes In the I Outlook When we are truly Ignorant it is a case case of arrested development In certain directions A man who has hag not brought up a 11 family may have at athis athis athis his call all the statistics about lies But he Is truly ignorant In the sense of not being developed In the feelings that intimate contact with ones one's family produces To have knowledge of a particular thing Is simply to have come In contact contact contact con con- tact with It In such a manner that ones one's feeling has been beell aroused about It We acquire knowledge largely by contemplation and meditation But Dut the thing we are learning about must Impose Itself upon us In such a way that eve we ve are forced to understand It I through our feelings and not our i minds s. s There Is nothing harder to overcome than thun ignorance It must be beaten to a stan standstill We have done this to the Huns Buns We Ve must now conclude our moral contract by bringing them Into contact with contact with the right things |
