THE similitude which many have fancied between the superiority 

 of the moderns to the ancients, and the elevation of a dwarf on 

 the back of a giant, is altogether false and puerile. Neither were 

 they giants nor are we dwarfs ; but all of us men of the same 

 standard, and we the taller of the two by adding their height to 

 our own : provided always that we do not yield to them in study, 

 attention, vigilance and love of truth, for if these qualities be 

 wanting, so far from mounting on the giant's shoulders, we throw 

 away the advantage of our own stature by remaining prostrate on 

 the ground. 



LUDOVICUS VIVES ; quoted by Lewes, Aristotle. 



