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`` Her error was in supposing that the one course was an alternative from the other , -- that she would not be trusting in Providence as much in going by the bridge as in braving the tempest . I think we are in the same error when we set up philosophy and prosperity in opposition to each other , taking up with the one when we can not get the other , as if philosophy were not over all , compassing our life as the blue sky overarches the earth , brightening , vivifying , harmonising all , whether we look up to see whence the light comes or not . '' `` You think it a mistake , then , '' said Margaret , `` not to look up to it till all is night below , and there is no light to be seen but by gazing overhead ? '' `` I do not see why we should miss seeing the white clouds and blue depths at noon because we may reckon upon moon and stars at midnight . Then again , what is life at its best without philosophy ? '' `` I can tell you , as well as anybody , '' said Mr Enderby , `` for I never had any philosophy , -- no , neither wisdom , nor the love of wisdom , nor patience , nor any of the things that philosophy is understood to mean . '' `` Oh , Mr Enderby ! ''