Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875, Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, ill · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 100
but, my dear little man, you must learn totalk about such things, when you grow older, in a verydifferent way from that. You must not talk aboutaint and cant when you speak of this greatwonderful world round you, of which the wisest man [ 88 ] THE WATER-BABIES knows only the very smallest corner,… … Nature is, or what she can do; and nobody knows.Wise men are afraid to say that there is anything con-trary to nature, except what is contrary to mathemati-cal truth; for two and two cannot make five, and twostraight lines cannot join twice, and a part cannotbe as great as the whole, and so on (at…
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