{"id":515,"date":"2013-04-02T22:03:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T03:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=515"},"modified":"2013-04-02T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T03:05:21","slug":"wisdom-knowledge-and-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/04\/02\/wisdom-knowledge-and-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom, knowledge, and information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,<br \/>\nThe Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.<br \/>\nO perpetual revolution of configured stars,<br \/>\nO perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,<br \/>\nO world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!<br \/>\nThe endless cycle of idea and action,<br \/>\nEndless invention, endless experiment,<br \/>\nBrings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;<br \/>\nKnowledge of speech, but not of silence;<br \/>\nKnowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.<br \/>\nAll our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,<br \/>\nAll our ignorance brings us nearer to death,<br \/>\nBut nearness to death no nearer to GOD.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Where is the Life we have lost in living?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThe cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries<br \/>\nBring us farther from GOD and nearer to the Dust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>T.S. Eliot, &#8220;Choruses from the &#8216;The Rock&#8217; &#8221; in <em>The Complete Poems and Plays<\/em> (New York: Harcourt, Brace &amp; World, 1971), 96.<\/p>\n<p>T.S. Eliot wrote fascinating poetry in the 20th century.\u00a0 Although he was born in St Louis, Missouri, he became a British citizen in 1927 and was a devout Anglican.\u00a0 He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948.\u00a0 He wrote &#8220;Choruses from the Rock&#8221; in 1934.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit. O perpetual revolution of configured stars, O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons, O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying! The endless cycle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/04\/02\/wisdom-knowledge-and-information\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-t-s-eliot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}