Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.
One and all We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto- Encourages the meanest who has racked Nature until he gains from her some fact, To state what truth is from his point of view, Mere pin-point though it be: since many such Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend Come forward unabashed and haply lend His little life-experience to our much Of modern knowledge.
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
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