{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw19.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw19.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw19.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nAll speculative research ends in perplexing uncertainty.\nI sought in the great sea of theoretical learning a bottom on which to stand\u2014and found nothing but one wave dashing me against another.\nAfter a lifetime of research and learning, I amassed nothing but such phrases as: \"It is said,\" or \"They say.\"\nO erring reason, I am sick of thee! I take a single step and thou movest a whole mile away from me.\nThe object sought in abstruse study is either a truth which cannot be known, or a vain thing which it is useless to know.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Speculative Studies","type":"page"}