{"id":"01KG8AKC4FYBNZ1K8QSF2NCJPT","cid":"bafkreiavqiotf5hg6jcebaznrdvq2azowi4l5cgwbzii3pblhepa5cd5gq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":10591,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.726Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":10529,"text":"\"Ah!\" cried the old man, brightening up, \"now I know. Look,\" turning the\r\nleaves forward and back, till all the Old Testament lay flat on one\r\nside, and all the New Testament flat on the other, while in his fingers\r\nhe supported vertically the portion between, \"look, sir, all this to the\r\nright is certain truth, and all this to the left is certain truth, but\r\nall I hold in my hand here is apocrypha.\"\r\n\r\n\"Apocrypha?\"\r\n\r\n\"Yes; and there's the word in black and white,\" pointing to it. \"And\r\nwhat says the word? It says as much as 'not warranted;' for what do\r\ncollege men say of anything of that sort? They say it is apocryphal. The\r\nword itself, I've heard from the pulpit, implies something of uncertain\r\ncredit. So if your disturbance be raised from aught in this apocrypha,\"\r\nagain taking up the pages, \"in that case, think no more of it, for it's\r\napocrypha.\"\r\n\r\n\"What's that about the Apocalypse?\" here, a third time, came from the\r\nberth.\r\n\r\n\"He's seeing visions now, ain't he?\" said the cosmopolitan, once more\r\nlooking in the direction of the interruption. \"But, sir,\" resuming, \"I\r\ncannot tell you how thankful I am for your reminding me about the\r\napocrypha here. For the moment, its being such escaped me. Fact is, when\r\nall is bound up together, it's sometimes confusing. The uncanonical part\r\nshould be bound distinct. And, now that I think of it, how well did\r\nthose learned doctors who rejected for us this whole book of Sirach. I\r\nnever read anything so calculated to destroy man's confidence in man.\r\nThis son of Sirach even says--I saw it but just now: 'Take heed of thy\r\nfriends;' not, observe, thy seeming friends, thy hypocritical friends,\r\nthy false friends, but thy _friends_, thy real friends--that is to say,\r\nnot the truest friend in the world is to be implicitly trusted. Can\r\nRochefoucault equal that? I should not wonder if his view of human\r\nnature, like Machiavelli's, was taken from this Son of Sirach. And to\r\ncall it wisdom--the Wisdom of the Son of Sirach! Wisdom, indeed! What an\r\nugly thing wisdom must be! Give me the folly that dimples the cheek,\r\nsay I, rather than the wisdom that curdles the blood. But no, no; it\r\nain't wisdom; it's apocrypha, as you say, sir. For how can that be\r\ntrustworthy that teaches distrust?\"\r\n\r\n\"I tell you what it is,\" here cried the same voice as before, only more\r\nin less of mockery, \"if you two don't know enough to sleep, don't be\r\nkeeping wiser men awake. And if you want to know what wisdom is, go find\r\nit under your blankets.\"\r\n\r\n\"Wisdom?\" cried another voice with a brogue; \"arrah and is't wisdom the\r\ntwo geese are gabbling about all this while? To bed with ye, ye divils,\r\nand don't be after burning your fingers with the likes of wisdom.\"\r\n\r\n\"We must talk lower,\" said the old man; \"I fear we have annoyed these\r\ngood people.\"\r\n\r\n\"I should be sorry if wisdom annoyed any one,\" said the other; \"but we\r\nwill lower our voices, as you say. To resume: taking the thing as I did,\r\ncan you be surprised at my uneasiness in reading passages so charged\r\nwith the spirit of distrust?\"\r\n\r\n\"No, sir, I am not surprised,\" said the old man; then added: \"from what\r\nyou say, I see you are something of my way of thinking--you think that\r\nto distrust the creature, is a kind of distrusting of the Creator. Well,\r\nmy young friend, what is it? This is rather late for you to be about.\r\nWhat do you want of me?\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJNPWTERPN2J92AFP8QXB","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKC4FFC4NG66A8D2BFHA0","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AKC4F254825F1645HB3CB","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:02.191Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:15.605Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}