Will you tell me I do not really know what fire or water is? There is not that single thing in the world whereof we can know the real nature, or what it is in itself. What! Say you we can know nothing, Hylas? Nature certainly never intended us for speculation. Our faculties are too narrow and too few. We keep a stir about knowledge, and spend our lives in the pursuit of it, when, alas I we know nothing all the while: nor do I think it possible for us ever to know anything in this life.
What we approve to-day, we condemn to-morrow.
Truly my opinion is that all our opinions are alike vain and uncertain. Tell me, Hylas, what are the fruits of yesterday's meditation? Has it confirmed you in the same mind you were in at parting? or have you since seen cause to change your opinion?
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