Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." in the context of "Jonathan Swift, Battle of the Books, fable on the merits of the bee (the ancients) and the spider (the moderns)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.