It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,. . . I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though it were only the finest particles,--why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine. . . . At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.