Nineteen
All that we think we know
Forms a limited system of conception
Enclosed within a much larger
and complementary system
Of all that we do not know
And therefore ignore
The more we understand
The more we find we don't know
And the less we actually realize
About the whole system
It is much too vast
For complete comprehension
By any single person or party
And yet to deny a person
His need to know as much as possible
And understand the whole
As if a single entity
Despite the ignorance
And the prejudice that results
Would be to refuse that person
His purpose for living
by Hugh M. Lewis
Reflections
Lost Souls and Unborn Hearts
1982
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