Article January 3, 1976 Issue

Humility and Healing

REGINALD EVELYN NICHOLLS

Humility is a virtue that has been advocated in some form since the earliest times. Cicero, the most eloquent of Roman orators, declared: "The higher we are placed, the more humbly should we walk." De Officiis, Chap. 26, Sect. 90; Too often mere human theories, the pride of scholarship, the belief that we have a little mind of our own apart from God, blind us to the truth. The English poet William Cowper, differentiating between the pride of knowledge and the humility of wisdom, writes:

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. The Task, Book VI;

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