nescience

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The so-called science that assumes or undertakes to do that, is materialism and nescience.

From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by Buck, J. D. (Jirah Dewey)

The old acceptance of religious nescience is passing away; there is a new impatience to reach the foundation of things, a popular clamour for explanation of the riddles of life.

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)

And what are all these gloomy and rebellious infidelities, these touching, and too sincere confessions of universal nescience, but a protest against this ancient law of Death?

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

If modern science, discovering the moon's inferiority to the sun, call the former feminine, ancient nescience, supposing the sun to be inferior to the moon, called the latter masculine.

From Moon Lore by Harley, Timothy

It is a nescience whereby human aspirations are cribbed within ruled lines and made to balance on the opposite side.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John