Bibliography

If Marcus Arellius wrote today, there'd be no Meditations,
If Plutarch compiled his analogs, there'd be no Lives,
If Herodotus wrote today, there'd be no Histories,
If Poets such as Southey or Wordsworth were writing today, there'd be no Lake Poets,
If Shakespeare were writing today, there'd be no comedies; nay, neither tragedies,
If Aristotle wrote today, there'd be no Politics or Ethics,
If Chateaubriand wrote today, his memoirs would be depleted,
If Byron wrote today, there'd be no Child Harold or Prometheus,
If Tolstoy wrote today, there'd be no War and Peace,
If the Grimm Brothers wrote today, there'd be no Grimm's Fairytales,
If Locke, Roseau or Voltaire wrote today, there'd be no free America or Free Europe,
If Frédéric Bastiat wrote today, he really couldn't, could he since I'm sure every idea of his was found by someone else,
If Walt Whitman wrote today, there'd be no Leaves of Grass; for they'd want all the compendiums which taught him.

The list goes on and on, that if writers would need a bibliography for their works
Like they do today,
Then nothing previously made would have been made.

And for this reason, generations are losing connection with their past
And for this reason, generations are losing grip on their future.