root-questions

Updated: May 25, 2025

For the first time in his life he found himself face to face with the root-questions of all thought 'What am I, and where? 'What can I know? And in the half-terrified struggle with them, he had all but forgotten the purpose for which he entered the lecture-hall. He felt that he must break the spell. Was she not a heathen and a false prophetess?

Charles Kingsley - Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face