The fishermen's saint / by Sir Wilfred Grenfell.

  • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Date:
1930
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Credit: The fishermen's saint / by Sir Wilfred Grenfell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He was ignorant and unlearned, even in the current science of the Year 1. Yet my best apology for devoting this time to him is that I am certain his experience is a valuable one for us. For what he learned in the only university which he ever attended, namely, that of life, both Scotland and this University have acknow¬ ledged, enabled a man with infinitely fewer academic qualifications than those of any of us to graduate summa cum laude. I am not a philosopher, and I do not know who was right, Plato or Socrates, Descartes or Kant, Berkeley or Herbert Spencer. What concerns us now is that the teaching of St. Andrew’s Teacher was that experience and not pure reason is the surest road to truth. He endorsed the conclusion of Seneca, and of the world’s most profound philosophers, that not only is empiricism our only path to absolute truth, but also that real religion is the way of life. This University has c
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