Nations, you say, may be beaten by other nations less learned and civilized ?" LEONARD.--"But knowledge elevates a class.

I invite the members of my own humble order to knowledge, because knowledge will lift them into power." RICCABOCCA.--"What do you say to that, Mr.Dale ?" PARSON.--"In the first place, is it true that the class which has the most knowledge gets the most power?
I suppose philosophers, like my friend Dr.Riccabocca, think they have the most knowledge.

And pray, in what age have philosophers governed the world?
Are they not always grumbling that nobody attends to them ?" RICCABOCCA.--"Per Bacco, if people had attended to us, it would have been a droll sort of world by this time!" PARSON.--"Very likely.

But, as a general rule, those have the most knowledge who give themselves up to it the most.

Let us put out of the question philosophers (who are often but ingenious lunatics), and speak only of erudite scholars, men of letters and practical science, professors, tutors, and fellows of colleges.