PERSONIFICATION OF SOCIAL ISSUE
Ignorance is personified as a boy brought forth by the Spirit, representing a social issue affecting humanity.
IGNORANCE
From the foldings of its robe it brought two children, wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. ... 'They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance.'