...Woodward also said, it is "one of the ends of liberal studies to make a man truly worthy of his freedom, to secure him against the tyranny of ignoble pleasures or of varying circumstance." Still, however practical they deemed their ideas to be, we should note that men of the Renaissance could also hatch their share of theory. indeed they needed to theorize. They were trying to change the world, to tap roots, to start anew.
~T. L. Simmons, Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
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