Abstract
As Though defining the issues for future discussions of progress, Seneca says in one of his epistles: “I differ from Posidonius when he holds that mechanical tools were the invention of wise men .... It was man's ingenuity, not his wisdom, that discovered all these devices. And I also differ from him when he says that wise men discovered our mines of iron and copper .... Nay, the sort of men who discover such things are the sort of men who are busied with them, men whose minds are nimble and keen, but not great or exalted; and the same holds true of any other discovery which can only be made by means of a bent body and of a mind whose gaze is upon the ground.”
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