' The first master strikes out a luminous idea, and writes a great book which promises 

 speedy results ; but after his own generation has been dazzled by it, comes the criticism 

 of the next : exceptions, and violations of his laws, are discovered ; the large views.which 

 he stated with convincing clearness become misty and obscure ; and men set themselves 

 to rediscover, in some new way, generally with poor and shabby minuteness, and with 

 many modifications, what was once an accepted theory.' 



The Present Position of Egyptology, by Professor MAHAFFY, 

 Nineteenth Century, Aug. 1894, p. 269. 



