The
office of learning is to make the mind penetrating lofty, and rich
with information.
Wealth in the hands of ignorant men,
and poverty that afflicts learned men, cause grief to them as well
as to the world at large. But between the two misfits, the
latter is not so great a misfortune as the former; for, while
poverty cannot cause real harm to the spirit of the learned, wealth
in the hands of the ignorant is a danger to the world:
The unlettered though born in a
higher social class are inferior in status to those who though born
low have acquired learning:
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