"<p>Are you smug and proud to think that you have read and understood a few books, enriched your knowledge, and learned something about nature or the human spirit? Do you feel "educated", better than the ignorant? Think of the infinite mass of knowledge contained in the sum total of books, and what more would you need to know and read to fully understand a single book? Think of the iron racks that run around the library of the British Museum, how long you would have to live to know something of the material of thought which the books piled up there enclose! But stay in your library, and confess how many books you have not read among those that line your bookshelves, and how many, even among those you have read, you have fully understood and followed with all attention. No, "education", when it comes face to face with the universe of the human spirit, is a barren and vain attitude. Think rather that to understand, to grasp, to feel a single piece of knowledge, demands the fullness of life's efforts. And think, too, how much has been written and thought before you, what oceans of thought rest in the past, and with what a rush of fall in every new age the wealth of human thought flows from the sum of appearances and phenomena. Think of this, and you will be ashamed. Thy brain is finite and childish. But the culture of your character and heart may be full and worthy of man, even if your intellectual knowledge is limited.</p>"