Ancients

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“We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)