Abstract
Abstract It was a great honour to be invited to join the distinguished company of those who have given the Athenaeum lectures since their inception in 1998. The club ‘s talk dinner committee showed great perspicacity in choosing, as the overall theme of the lecture series, ‘The Unity of Knowledge ‘. This is a broad and fertile topic that can be approached in a variety of ways, as previous lectures have amply demonstrated. There is, in my view, a special unity peculiar to knowledge— and not only scientific knowledge. Belief on the other hand— and not only religious belief— leaves room for exuberant diversity. Knowledge is single, belief is multiplex. There are two reasons for this difference between knowing and believing. One reason is philosophical, the other is historical; one reason is necessary, the other is contingent.
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