"Who loves not Knowledge"? He would have it pursued to its utmost limits;
but in the keen searchings of the scientific there is this danger, that
conclusions are apt to be accepted before they have been proved.
When "cut from love and faith," Science is no more than "some wild Pallas
from the brain of Demons"--like Minerva, who sprang all armed and
full-grown from the brain of Jupiter.
Science, too often,
"leaps into the future chance,
Submitting all things to desire.
Half-grown as yet, a child, and vain"--
and therefore needing caution and restraint.