Wise in Their Own Conceits

We live today in an enlightened and wise age. Knowledge and wisdom have increased in recent times, as we see round about us. Every day we are assaulted with a barrage of man's supposed knowledge and his profound wisdom. Most recently we have heard a great deal of political wisdom -- most of it, I suspect, foolishness in reality. But this wisdom extends to every sphere of life, especially that of science, and more specifically to the area of the investigation of the origin of all things and of...