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By W. E. B. Du Bois
And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
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- The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 1903 · Chapter XII, "Of Alexander Crummell", pp. 226-227
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1903 first edition, Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.)
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From The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903), Chapter XII, "Of Alexander Crummell". Du Bois is writing about the Black clergyman and scholar Alexander Crummell, whose work he says went unnoticed.