In fact, I didn’t show you any of the arrogance in this lecture; I’ve been attended carefully to give a title to it, denied the dressed as “Contemporary research method compatible with ancient times” and chose the humblest. Because I hope that my words are accomplished as
the light that rises in the smoke rather than the flame that vanishes into the smoke,*
sincerely.
Translation in English ©J-W.HWANG
Me vero in hac dissertatione nihil omnino iactavi; idque adeo cavi sedulo, ut quanquam ea speciosum titulum praeseferre posset: De recentiori et antiqua studiorum ratione conciliata, nihilominus maxime vulgarem concepi; nam
Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem,*
Velim.
Source: De nostri temporis studiorum ratione (On the Study Method of Our Times), Giambattista Vico, tr. Alain Pons, Edition Les Belles lettre, 2010, Paris, ISBN 978-2-251-73032-5, pp.81
* Horace, Ars Poetica, V. 143
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