nescience

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At the very same time the two schools were born into the modern world, and the re-proclamation of Theosophy, the supreme knowledge, was the answer from the invisible worlds to the nescience of Science.

From London Lectures of 1907 by Besant, Annie Wood

But all this is merely the old effort to make capital out of nescience, and the stars are before our eyes to prove the contrary.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard

Theology and metaphysics Comte repeatedly characterises as the two successive stages of nescience, unavoidable as preludes to science.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

Science hangs in a void of nescience, a planet turning in the dark.

From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

But all other sciences and arts, except this, have for their object the doing away with their opposite nescience and artlessness.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John