With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Lord Bacon." Edinburgh Review, July 1837.

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A quote by Thomas Babington Macaulay about western intellectual tradition: “With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead…”

A quote by Thomas Babington Macaulay about western intellectual tradition: “With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead…”

A quote by Thomas Babington Macaulay about western intellectual tradition: “With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead…”