Us, modern humans (other known as Homo-sapiens), are capable of thinking just like any other humankind but there is one feature that separates modern humans from any other humankind. That is difference is forming large communities.
Large communities require new ideas nonstop to develope and improve so people use “old ideas” to inspire “new ideas”. Mark Twain declares that there are no such things as new idead and all the newly created thoughts are based on old ideas and they are a reflection of old ideas.
I personally disagree with this thought. The particle reason for this circumstance is that I do not consider this idea reasoning nor logical. From my personal percpective every newly created idea is a new idea. Whether it was inspired from old ideas that was popular or took place in history. Regardless of the circumstance I consider every altered idea as new opinion. That is due to the fact that whoever is reforming the old version of that thought is adding something new and that is sufficiantly credible to call it new.
Of course, there is other side of the story such as ideas which were told in the past but they were not fit for those time of the history. As Victor Hugo said “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” He is reffering to those ideas which were not suitable for their time but is useful for present or future time. I can agree with this theory more because I belive that there are many ideas which were said in the past but were not suitable for their time so the opinions were not useful at all.
So concluding all of these I justify Victor Hugo’s theory more than Mark Twain.