Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations

Good epistemological advice from Deuteronomy 32:7 King James Version

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

Kind of ties in with that definition of society as the communion of the dead, the living and the unborn. Whose line is that? Ah. Burke. Of course. From The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 3, p. 359 (1899).

[Society] is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.