Friday, February 21, 2025

Standing on the shoulders of Giants , Ancestor Veneration, is the Peoples way originating circa 2.5 million years ago , as current fossil, artifact evidences indicates.

ROBERT BURTON. 1576-1640.


Naught so sweet as melancholy.? Anatomy of Melancholy.& The Author' & Abstract<


I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.* Democritus to the Reader. works. 5 They lard their lean books with the fat of others' Ibid.


We can say nothing but what hath been said.® Our poets steal from Homer... • Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.

Ibid. I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant him-self.? Ibid.


1 Deeds, not words. — BUTLER: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line

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