* * Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries invoke the mercies of the skies? Enquirer, cease; petitions yet remain, Which Heaven may hear; nor deem religion vain.

" For Ramon de Sarrion was one of those good Spaniards and good Catholics who lay the entire blame for the downfall of their country from its great estate to a Church, which can only hope to live in its present form as long as superstition and crass ignorance prevail.

They are ignorant, as a rule, and ignorance breeds superstition.

They do not Stretch out the seven heavens; let ignorance cease.

It was not within the compass of his voice to reach that savage note which in brutal ignorance condemns, where loving justice never could condemn.

Ignorance N. ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa [Lat.], crass ignorance, ignorance crasse

Huxley said he did not know, which was equivalent to the dogmatic assertion that he did; Gladstone said he did know, which was a confession of ignorance denser than that of agnosticism.

And man his ignorance discern.

Money produces money; knowledge is the parent of knowledge; and ignorance fortifies ignorance.

"When, on the contrary, we are staying at the houses of others, when we have seen them in the midst of all their habits and environments among those necessary conditions from which they cannot escape, when we have seen how they affect those about them, and how they adapt themselves to their circumstances, it is ignorance nay, worse, it is ill-will, to find ridiculous what in more than one sense has a claim on our respect.

And yet my silence had not 'scaped their spite; Then, envy had not suffer'd me to write; For, since I could not ignorance pretend, Such merit I must envy or commend.

He may do so much, be they, indifferently, Penn'd statutes, or the land's unwritten usages, As public fame, civil compliances, Misnamed honor, trust in matter of secrets, All vows and promises, the feeble mind's religion, (Binding our morning knowledge to approve What last night's ignorance spake); The ties of blood withal, and prejudice of kin.

Mr. March, your ignorance surprises and pains me.

[consort, DF], ignorances terror.

They professed ignorance thennone of them knew, or, at least, none of them would say.

First, One Cause of our ignorance Want of Ideas.

You will like a little longer to find her in the cushions when you are vexed or idle; but you don't want her where her ignorance wearies and her weakness hampers you.

For these are creatures, compared with whom our weakness is strength, our ignorance wisdom, our brief span eternity.

Every experiment which the officiousness of folly could communicate, or the credulity of ignorance admit, was tried upon me.

Here it is said that 'Apollinaris, the most holy bishop of Hierapolis in Asia, who lived near the times of the Apostles, in his book about Easter, taught much the same, saying thus: "There are some who through ignorance wrangle about these matters, in a pardonable manner; for ignorance does not admit of blame but rather needs instruction.

but they are soldiers nevertheless, and good soldiers and chivalrous, fighting their nation's battle, often on even less pay than you, and with still less chance of promotion and of fame, against most real and fatal enemiesagainst ignorance of the laws of this planet, and all the miseries which that ignorance begets.