Now from studying these proverbs you will receive something. The word ‘receive’ is a very strong one.
Whatever we may think of our much-vaunted modern scientific training, there is no doubt it washes right out of the mind the ability really to think. You have got to put that in yourself alongside the facts. Modern scientific training will not tell you that. They will say it teaches you to reason, but the scientific method of reasoning is so materialistic and so rationalistic, it is entirely irrelevant to the moral frame of things. And there are very few people who know how to think in terms of principles, even in the churches, even in evangelical circles, otherwise we would not have such blatant pragmatism.