Saturday, July 24, 2010

Mastery over nature but not over himself...

Indeed, [we ought to] ponder the difference between the man who was educated to believe himself a little lower than the angels and the man whose education permits him to ignore both angels and God, to avoid knowledge not of the five senses, and to presume mastery over nature but not over himself.
~David Hicks, Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education p.10

2 comments:

Dana in Georgia said...

I've enjoyed Cindy Rollins' synopses of Norms and Nobility.

Now I can follow along with you!

Blessings fm GA,
Dana

MagistraCarminum said...

You are most welcome to come along, Dana. It was Cindy who inspired me to pull it out for a re-read. And perhaps she was part of the group that I first read the book with on my online classical home school loop.