Elon University - Phi Psi Cli Yearbook (Elon, NC)

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First consider this mass of learning. The scholar is indeed faced with much to learn, but he sometimes forgets that he has learned much. Nonetheless, his minuteness is evident. Con- sider then the whole of all learning and of all existence. This is indeed infinite, but it is not chaotic. Take a galaxy in mind, pinwheel-like and moving. At the center is a sun, and out from the sun come planets and from the planets, moons. Even the galaxy itself is an extension of a local group of galaxies and this group too is a part of the expanding substance in space. The same order is true of knowledge. Lan- guage, to take one instance, is merely a portion of a more complete existence if it is noted that need gives vent to expression, expression to words, words to language, language to under- standing, understanding to creation, creation to beauty. . .

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