Nobilities, indecencies, heroic impulses, cowardly ravings, good and bad, white and black - the mystery of mysteries, the central island of nescience in a sea of science, the dark spot in the lighted room of knowledge, the unknown quantity, the X in the universal problem. (Frank Crane)

Nobilities, indecencies, heroic impulses, cowardly ravings, good and bad, white and black - the mystery of mysteries, the central island of nescience in a sea of science, the dark spot in the lighted room of knowledge, the unknown quantity, the X in the universal problem.

Frank Crane

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