He has power to reach the whole of knowledge at one leap.
"In that, I mistook the conditions of life.

I did not see our barriers; nor that progress is slow; nor that every step of the past is necessary to know and to remember; nor that, in the shade of the past, the present stands forth bright; nor that the future is not to be all at once, but to dawn on us, in zone after zone of quiet progress.

I strove to laugh down all the limits of our life, and then the smallest things broke me down--me, who tried to realise the impossible on earth.

At last I knew that the power I sought was only God's, and then I prayed to die.

All my life was failure.
"At this crisis I met Aprile, and learned my deep mistake.