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I've taken a little house oh! a sweet little house that will be all over 'oses next month. I'm living f'om 'oom to 'oom and having the othas done up. It's in that little quiet st'eet behind you' ga'den wall. And he' I am!" "Is it the old doctor's house?" asked Lady Ella. "Was it an old docta?" cried Lady Sunderbund. "How delightful! And now I shall be a patient!" She concentrated upon the bishop.
Perhaps the work of Cusanus that is best known is that "On Learned Ignorance De Docta Ignorantia," in which the Cardinal points out how many things that educated people think they know are entirely wrong. It reminds one very much of Josh Billings's remark that it is not so much the ignorance of mankind that makes them ridiculous, as the knowing so many things that ain't so.
"If Professo' Frowenfel' 's in?" replied a young man in shirt-sleeves, speaking rapidly, slapping a paper package which he had just tied, and sliding it smartly down the counter. "No, seh." A quick step behind the doctor caused him to turn; Raoul was just entering, with a bright look of business on his face, taking his coat off as he came. "Docta Keene! Teck a chair. 'Ow you like de noo sto'? See?
These were succeeded by smaller treatises entitled De Quaerendo Deum, De Dato Patris Luminum, De Filiatione Dei, De Genesi, and a defense of the De Docta Ignorantia. He clothes in continually changing forms the one supreme truth on which all depends, and which cannot be expressed in intelligible language but only comprehended by living intuition.
How clearly Cusanus anticipated another phase of our modern views may be judged from what he has to say in "De Docta Ignorantia" with regard to the constitution of the sun.
The mettlesome little doctor felt the odds against him in the exchange of greetings. "Ola, Dawctah!" "Hé, Doctah, que-ce qui t'après fé?" "Ho, ho, compère Noyo!" "Comment va, Docta?" A light peppering of profanity accompanied each salute.
It is not a "slice" out of the eighteenth century there can be no real "slice out of life" excepting in life itself. It is the original pagan assertion of life, which finds its opposite in Euripides' conception of the ascetic Hippolytus; an assertion which Propertius repeated in the language of mockery when he speaks of a lena as "Docta vel Hippolytum Veneri mollire negantem."
She was not insensible to the claims which her husband's disorders had upon science, and she liked to end the tale of her own sufferings with some such appeal as: "I wish you could do something for Mr. Landa, too, docta."
The first man, seemingly, to hark back to the Aristarchian conception in the new scientific era that was now dawning was the noted cardinal, Nikolaus of Cusa, who lived in the first half of the fifteenth century, and was distinguished as a philosophical writer and mathematician. His De Docta Ignorantia expressly propounds the doctrine of the earth's motion.
But it is just this insight into the incomprehensibility of the infinite which gives us a true knowledge of God; this is the meaning of the "learned ignorance," the docta ignorantia. The distinctions between these several stages of cognition are not, however, to be understood in any rigid sense, for each higher function comprehends the lower, and is active therein.
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