Every degree of Knowledge is valuable. It would be an unreasonable, as well as an incommodious Sullenness in us, to refuse all light, except that of Noonday. We find our Ease and Happiness frequently depend on the doing of things by Twilight, or even Moonlight, or the still more dubious Light of, perhaps, a Rush or a Glow-worm.

Ephraim Chambers, 1728 Preface