Update:
Due to some email difficulty my own information was held up.
I am restarting an daily page for one more year beginning Monday, June 4th when I will start by answering:
How many passengers was the horse-drawn hansom cab meant to carry?
My guess from television would be two, but it wouldn't surprise me if they started out smaller.
Also, the last answer I received before my communications went awry, was:
Alexander Pope said, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." He was also later quoted, "A little learning..." and is said to have borrowed the phrase himself from A History of Phanaticism by an author only know as A.B. who, in 1698, wrote:
"Twas well observed by my Lord Bacon, That a little knowledge is apt to puff up, and make men giddy, but a greater share of it will set them right, and bring them to low and humble thoughts of themselves.
In other words these quotes are not about knowledge being a threat but rather about not knowing the whole story can lead to unwanted results.
Assuming things are back to normal I will likely post these tidbits and their elaborations for one more year ending on June 2, 2013, although this coloring problem may well deter me.
Have a nice day, Otto
(Sources: American Mensa, email transmission, May & June 2012; http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/carriages/1.html; http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-little-knowledge-is-a-dangerous-thing.html)
Compiled by Otto Ladensack with Patricia Ladensack
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