Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Published by The Senior Class THE SKULL TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Philadelphia • Pennsylvania 1949

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4 | NCE upon a lime, in ancient Greece, a great ami wise man was asked to explain the nature of what men call. Knowledge. There was time in those days, apparently, for men to devote to such (y investigations. They had not yet developed the stratoplane, the jet y aircraft, the snorkel submarine, or the atomic age; and there was ' the reasonable assurance, lacked today, that if their problem was J not solved one day, they would yet find the world the same on the following day or even the following year, for the understanding of their problem. The great and wise man pondered the question for a time; perhaps he meditatively toyed with his heard. Probably at the same time he surveyed the compass of his questioner and quietly decided that the best course to the fellow's comprehension was by way of an illustration. “Consider the man in search of Knowledge, he said, “to be imprisoned in a cave, chained so that he can view only the • blind end at the back of the cavern while outside shines the light of Truth. Without, in the world of reality, all things move, bathed in the brilliant light of Truth. To our prisoner in the cave, however, O there is nothing but the wavering distorted shadows of these thing; cast on the wall of the cave before him. With great effort he learns 7 to differentiate one from another, to classify them according to shape or movement, to interpret them in relationship to one an- other. But, concerning the nature of each, he is ignorant . . . how could he he otherwise, never having beheld them in their true form? aa rT •' . ': O