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I had learned enough from the books to realise that I had only touched the hem of knowledge's garment. I still lived on the heights. My waking hours, and most of the hours I should have used for sleep, were spent with the books. Out in the country, at the Belmont Academy, I went to work in a small, perfectly appointed steam laundry.
We are rather prone to think that this great spirit of going far afield for knowledge's sake is recent, or, at least, quite modern. As a matter of fact, one finds it everywhere in history.
In the first place, I should say that the "Credit-for-quality" system of marking as used by us places before the students unworthy ideals. Students of university rank can be led to seek knowledge for knowledge's sake, truth for truth's sake. They can be taught to see farther ahead than the close of the term, and something more precious than an extra three-tenths of a credit.
"And ought we not," added Madame Thuillier, timidly, "to let her marry according to her own taste, so as to be happy?" At twenty-three years of age, Felix Phellion was a gentle, pure-minded young man, like all true scholars who cultivate knowledge for knowledge's sake.
"Farewell for the present," said he, and he went quietly away. He paced thoughtfully home. He had drunk a fact with every sentence; and an idea with every fact. For the knowledge we have never realized is not knowledge to us only knowledge's shadow. With the banished duke, he now began to feel, "we are not alone unhappy."
Out in the great field of knowledge's unsurveyed territory he worked a blazer of the trail, a voice crying from the wilderness: "I have opened up another few feet. You can come now a little farther."
Knowledge for knowledge's sake is appealing only to the rare scholar, he who palpitates with interest over the relationship of things to one another, he who seeks to discover values.
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