If it is true that...

The advantages of age include knowledge, efficiency, money, and power

and

Copying existing work can be a learning process

Then it must be true that...

Copying can be a sign of superiority rather than subordination

If it is true that...

Copying can be a sign of superiority rather than subordination

and

Originality is the presence of new ideas, not the absence of old ones

Then it must be true that...

New discoveries often have to be conceived initially as variations of existing things