“A man that lacketh natural! knowledge, an ideote. —Bihliotheca Eliotae, Thomas Cooper (1559) Fol. Arse, goose, calfe, dotterell, woodcocke, noddie, cokes, goose cap, coxcombe, ninnie, naturall. —Dictionary of French and English Tongues, R. Cotgrave (1611) Fool, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscient, omnipotent. . . . He is from everlasting to everlasting—suc...h as creation’s dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand has warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man’s evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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