The Ethics of Law. 
7 
The highest attainment in philosophy will be when all the depart- 
ments of knowledge are studied in their due proportion by minds 
endowed with the greatest powers. 
One man, indeed, may be an enthusiast in natural history, yet be 
ignorant of geology. Another may be deeply versed in botany, yet 
be a mere tyro in other directions. One may be profound in mathe- 
matics and mental phenomena, yet with no knowledge of the earth 
upon which he stands. Another may have plumbed the depths of all 
the sciences, yet given no time to drink in the realities connected 
with the moral world. There are some with large mental powers, 
like Newton, who, to vast acquisitions of knowledge of things in the 
heavens above and in the earth beneath, have added a childlike atti- 
tude to the teaching from above and attained to that wisdom which 
clothes humanity with its highest dignity. 
