... Greek authors and looking further in to their manuscripts and trying to find out their true meaning. "The humanists believed that the Greek and Latin classics contained both all the lessons one needed to lead a moral and effective life and the best models for a powerful Latin style. They developed a new, rigorous kind of classical scholarship, with which they corrected and tried to understand the works of the Greeks and Romans, which seemed so vital to them" (Humanism). Believing that a classical instruction alone could form a perfect man, the Humanists so called themselves in opposition to the Scholastics, and adopted the term humaniora (the humanities) as signifying the scholarship of the ancients. "Though the interval between the classical period and their own days was regarded by the Humanists as barbarous and destructive alike of art and science" (Hadas, 18). Humanism like every other historical phenomenon was connected ...

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