Francis Bacon reminds us that modernity is the real antiquity:
“True”, Bacon says, ‘antiquity’ is “ancient and older in relation to us, but with respect to the world itself, it was newer & younger. … Our age is the older of the world, enriched & stocked with countless experiences & observations.”
– The New Organon, aphorism 84
– Image: Francis Bacon as a child, c.1561-2 (Unknown artist)
D. L. Dusenbury 