136 116 128 "Why" said I, "X__
however singular a study to some, is yet
human, and knowledge of the world
assuredly implies the knowledge of
human nature, and in most of its
varieties."
"Yes, but a superficial
knowledge of it, serving ordinary purposes.
But for anything deeper, I am not
certain whether to know the world
and to know human nature be not
two distinct branches of knowledge,
which while they may coexist in the
same heart, yet either may be exist with
little or nothing of the other. Nay, in
an average man of the world, his
constant rubbing with it blunts
136 116 128 "Why" said I, "X__
however singular a study to some, is yet
human, and knowledge of the world
assuredly implies the knowledge of
human nature, and in most of its
varieties."
"Yes, but a superficial
knowledge of it, serving ordinary purposes.
But for anything deeper, I am not
certain whether to know the world
and to know human nature be not
two distinct branches of knowledge,
which while they may coexist in the
same heart, yet either may be exist with
little or nothing of the other. Nay, in
an average man of the world, his
constant rubbing with it blunts

Transcribed by: John Bryant