Crossword-Solution: IGNORATION 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Strange, that the stigma of atheism should have been affixed to a system whose very starting-point is Deity and whose great characteristic is the _ignoration_ of everything but Deity, insomuch that the pure and devout Novalis pronounced the author a God-drunken man, and Spinozism a surfeit of Deity.

And now the feeblest among us can repeat the words of power, and take part in dynamical discussions which a few years ago we should have left to our betters." A very remarkable feature in this discussion is the use made of the idea of "ignoration of coordinates." The variables made use of in the Lagrangian equations must be such as to enable the positions of the parts of the system which determine the motion to be expressed for any instant of time.

The other coordinates are thus in a certain sense ignored, and the method is called that of "ignoration of coordinates." Theorems of action of great importance for a general theory of optics conclude this chapter; but of these it is impossible to give here any account, without a discussion of technicalities beyond the reading of ordinary students of dynamics.

Thus the faith in the tradition produced a more tragic result than the most superstitious could have dreaded from its ignoration.

And what is to be said of those more serious suppositions, unproved and unprovable, which guide modern science wherever it meets philosophical-religious questions? That truly dogmatic rejection of everything supernatural and transcendental, that obstinate ignoration of a personal God, the rejection of any creative act, of any miracle, of any revelation,—a presupposition directly raised to a scientific principle: the principle of causality.