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But I chuckled inwardly as I offered my visitor a chair. 'Experientia docet! I had seen quite a number of plain-clothes police officers in the last few months and the present specimen would have been typical even without his boots. I prepared to enjoy myself. "'I have taken the liberty of calling on you, Mr. Challoner, my visitor began, 'to make a few enquiries concerning er skeletons.
He says, "All has been set down in love, by a lover, for the sake of lovers yet to be, in the hope of helping them on toward a divine consummation." That is, he has developed these ideas at home, and then spread them abroad, or, he has found them abroad and brought them home; and they worked. I also speak somewhat ex experientia and have some intimate personal knowledge of many of these things.
The first was the gift of true lyric, not seldom indeed marred by the lack of polish above noticed, but real, true, and constant, from the "Fata Morgana" and "Buried Heart" of The Wanderer to the "Experientia Docet" and "Selenites" of Marah, more than thirty years later. The other was a much more individual power, and by some might be ranked higher.
"This is pleasant," said the major. "Oh, we can get through, sir," said Mark. "Let me go first." "Do," said the major, with a smile at Gregory, and as the lad pressed forward, "Experientia docet," he whispered. "I've been in a jungle before now."
"That's right, for if left to yourself you would press on, and in less than a month all that would be left of my dear lad would be a few whitening bones in the desert, and Harry still gazing northward and westward for the help that did not come." "I'm afraid you are right, Landon," said Frank sadly. "I'm sure I am, my dear lad. Experientia has dosed me.
So it is with everything which man learns to do; and yet for the art of arts, the trade of trades, for life, we content ourselves with teaching our children the catechism and the commandments; we preach them sermons on the good of being good, and the evil of being evil; in our higher education we advance to the theory of habit and the freedom of the will; and then, when failure follows failure, ipsa experientia reclamante, we hug ourselves with a complacent self-satisfied reflection that the fault is not ours, that all which men could do we have done.
Inertia! inertia! As in the mediæval epoch, and some time thereafter, anatomists and physiologists experimented on the living villeins, that is, on peasantry, serfs, and called this process experientia in anima vili, so this naïve administration experiments in civil and in military matters on the people's life-blood.
"Nakú, a metaphysician, but a rather premature one! So you can't conceive of it, eh? Sed patet experientia and contra experientiam negantem, fusilibus est arguendum, do you understand? And can't you conceive, with your philosophical head, that one can be absent from the class and not know the lesson at the same time? Is it a fact that absence necessarily implies knowledge?
Qualis verô ea Gens sit, ex qua ista Naturæ Ludibria tantâ copiâ proveniant, Vossium docere oportelat, quia Pumiliones Pumiles alios non gignunt, sed plerunque steriles sunt, experientia teste; ut planè non opus habuerunt Doctores Talmudici Nanorum matrimonia prohibere, ne Digitales ex iis nascerentur.
O sweet Saint Giles! ne'er saw I such sword-work point and edge, sa-ha! And I called thee dove! aye 'dove' it was, I mind me. O blind and worse than blind! But experientia docet, tall brother!" Now hereupon Beltane bowed his head and clasping his hands, wrung them. "Sweet Jesu forgive me!" he cried, "I had not meant to slay so many!"
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