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Ignorance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the surest remedy against free-thinking — and once it is abandoned, the next best is a thorough sense of reason's weakness.

Ignorance (n.) confessed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in learned and elaborate ways is all that either theism or materialism offers on the origin of order; one merely flatters vulgar prejudice more.

Ignorance (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠save a belief already held, but cannot found one: we must infer God's goodness from what we know, not from what we are ignorant of.

Ignorance (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the mother of devotion — yet a people entirely without religion are but a few degrees removed from brutes.

Ignorance (n.) leaves ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the thoughtless moved by their propensities as a stream follows the slope of the ground, shut out from the medicine of the mind.