{"id":2461,"date":"2018-08-17T17:56:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/114-wise-ignorance\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:56:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:28","slug":"114-wise-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/114-wise-ignorance\/","title":{"raw":"114. <i>Wise Ignorance<\/i>.","rendered":"114. <i>Wise Ignorance<\/i>."},"content":{"raw":" <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/239\" target=\"new\">221<\/a><\/span> <p>It is impossible to become either an eminently great, or truly pious man without the courage to remain ignorant of many things. This important truth is most happily expressed by the elder Scaliger in prose, and by the younger in verse; the latter extract has an additional claim from the exquisite terseness of its diction, and the purity of its latinity. <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/240\" target=\"new\">222<\/a><\/span>We particularly recommend its perusal to the commentators on the apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>Quare ulterior disquisitio morosi atque satagentis animis est; human\u00e6 enim sapienti\u00e6 pars est, qu\u00e6dam \u00e6quo animo nescire <i>velle<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote-cite\"> <p><i>Scal. Ex.<\/i> 307. \u00a7 29.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"poem\"> <p>Ne curiosis qu\u00e6re causas omnium. <br>\nQu\u00e6cunque libris vis prophetarum indidit, <br>\nAfflata c\u00e6lo, plena veraci Deo: <br>\nNec operta sacri supparo silentii <br>\nIrrumpere ande; sed prudenter pr\u00e6teri! <br>\n<i>Nescire velle qi\u00e6 magister optimus<\/i> <br>\n<i>Docere non vult, erudita inscitia est.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"quote-cite\"> <p><i>Josep. Scalig<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n","rendered":"<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/239\" target=\"new\">221<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to become either an eminently great, or truly pious man without the courage to remain ignorant of many things. This important truth is most happily expressed by the elder Scaliger in prose, and by the younger in verse; the latter extract has an additional claim from the exquisite terseness of its diction, and the purity of its latinity. <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/240\" target=\"new\">222<\/a><\/span>We particularly recommend its perusal to the commentators on the apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>Quare ulterior disquisitio morosi atque satagentis animis est; human\u00e6 enim sapienti\u00e6 pars est, qu\u00e6dam \u00e6quo animo nescire <i>velle<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote-cite\">\n<p><i>Scal. Ex.<\/i> 307. \u00a7 29.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"poem\">\n<p>Ne curiosis qu\u00e6re causas omnium. <br \/>\nQu\u00e6cunque libris vis prophetarum indidit, <br \/>\nAfflata c\u00e6lo, plena veraci Deo: <br \/>\nNec operta sacri supparo silentii <br \/>\nIrrumpere ande; sed prudenter pr\u00e6teri! <br \/>\n<i>Nescire velle qi\u00e6 magister optimus<\/i> <br \/>\n<i>Docere non vult, erudita inscitia est.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"quote-cite\">\n<p><i>Josep. Scalig<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":114,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2461","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2461\/revisions\/2462"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/27"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2461\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}