Doubt

In a recent article—The Erudite Philistine—Ada Bronowski wrote, “…the more one is convinced of one’s depth, the more what one finds, deep within oneself, is an abysmal void.” She explained the “oxymoronic formula [that] brings us back to ‘the enigma wrapped up in a mystery’ that is the erudite philistine. Two fundamental principles lie at the heart of t…