All our knowledge brings us nearer to
our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death, no nearer to God.
Where is the Life
we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
— T. S. Eliot, Choruses From
‘The Rock’, Selected Poems (New York: Harcourt,
Brace & World, 1964), p. 107.
For this unit, work through the following preparatory
activities.