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Learning for learning’s sake?

“Men have entered into the desire of learning and knowledge,… seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benifit and use of men, but as if they sought in knowledge a couch whereon to rest a searching and wandering spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect…” Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

But then again, even Bacon was keen of the advancements to the world that the Arts produced, and of course I would neither have appreciated nor even come across this quote if I hadn’t been studying Philosophy.