num_pages: 384
description: Excerpt: "We know in part, and we prophesy in part: but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things." - I Corinthians xiii. 9-11. The history of man's search for knowledge in every branch of study has commonly to pass through three stages. First there is the season of toilsome struggle with difficulties, when perplexing problems are grappled with; a time of labour, no doubt, but of labour rewarded by a sense of constant progress, as difficulty after difficulty is mastered and problem after problem finds its solution. At length we reach a summit from which we can look round with some complacency on our achievements, when we see below us the heights that had been the object of our early ambition, and can delight ourselves with the harmonious landscape which the fields we had traversed present. 
language: English
title: Gnosticism and Agnosticism and Other Sermons 1887
titlecomplete: Gnosticism and Agnosticism and Other Sermons 1887
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Kessinger Publishing