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“There are cases, in which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed by the history of a word than by the history of a campaign.” Indeed, this observation by Samuel Taylor Coleridge may be opened out to include not merely single words, but also aphorisms, metaphors, and short significant sayings. And one of the most striking of these is one he himself used in The Friend: "The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on."

According to Aristotle, “All men by nature desire to know.” There is in us an unquenchable urge to understand this world in which we live and move and have our being. And, correlatively, there is the human quest, the self-reflective journey to discover what part each of us plays in the drama of existence.