Ned Learns

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“Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn?
Hollows thereof lay rich in shade
By voyagers old inviolate thrown
Ere Paul Pry cruised with Pelf and Trade.
To us old lads some thoughts come home
Who roamed a world young lads no more shall roam.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)