Servant-maids, you must all have your own half-chapter out of First Peter by heart.
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But I have as many students of one kind or other here to-night as I have maid-servants, and they will remember where a great student has said that knowledge without love but puffeth a student up.

Now, the best knowledge for us all, and especially so for a student, is to know himself: his own ignorance, his own foolishness, his blindness of mind, and, especially, his corruption of heart.

For that knowledge will both keep him from being puffed up with what he already knows, and it will also put him and keep him in the way of knowing more.

Self-knowledge will increase humility, and all the past masters both of science and of religion will tell him that humility is the certain note of the true student.