It is the half-views are disastrous still; <br />But size a thing up fully, seize the whole, <br />And reason then has ground to go upon <br />For its acceptance or rejection; but <br />What is half-known, like undigested food, <br />Ferments, and sourly taints the mental gorge <br />Until it rises; ignorance so heaves <br />His good things with his bad into the ditch.<br /><br />Robert Crawford<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/half-views/
