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Excerpt from The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 4 of 4: Complete With Exceptions Specified in the Preface
A' terrible thing is ignorance, the source Of endless human woes, Spreading a mist over facts, obscuring truth, and casting a gloom upon the individual life. We are all walkers in dark ness - or say, our experience is that of blind men, knocking help-e lessly against the real, and stepping high to clear the imaginary, failing to see what is close at their feet, and in terror of being hurt by something that is leagues away. Whatever we do, we are perpetually Slipping about. This it is that has found the tragic poets a thousand themes, Labdacids, Pelopids, and all their kind. Inquiry would Show that most Of the calamities put upon the boards are arranged by ignorance as by some supernatural stage-manager. This is true enough as a gener ality; but I refer more particularly to the false reports about intimates and friends that have ruined families, razed cities, driven fathers into frenzy against their Offspring, embroiled brother with brother, children with parents, and lover with beloved. Many are the friendships that have been cut short, many the households set by the ears, because Slander has found ready credence.
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