smooth-rubb'd

Updated: May 12, 2025

"One to whose smooth-rubb'd soul can cling Nor form nor feeling, great nor small; A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all," may write very famous books, profound even to unintelligibility, but can never be a philosopher. Strange enough as it may seem, the true philosophy is to be found any where rather than among philosophers.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843