'Tis sad work to be at that pass, that the best trial of truth must be
the multitude of believers, in a crowd where the number of fools so much
exceeds that of the wise. As if anything were so common as
ignorance!--_Montaigne._
Ignorance, which in behavior mitigates a fault, is, in literature, a
capital offense.--_Joubert._
There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice
which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either
to fall _by_ the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or
_with_ them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.--_Coleridge._