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Probably the forces which made for attack, 

 differently applied, made also for defence. 

 Growing wealth and increasing population, 

 and the levelling up of a democratic period, 

 meant more schools and colleges; and more 

 schools and colleges meant the direction of a 

 greater variety of minds to the subjects of 

 education, and a consequent tendency to strike 

 out new lines. And, granting that the classics 

 were still to be studied, work must find some- 

 thing new to its hand. The older scholars, the 

 Bentleys and Porsons, the Lachmanns and 

 Hermanns, the Gaisfords and Linwoods later, 

 had done the necessary pioneer work in the 

 constitution of the texts of the great classics, 

 and the Munros and Mayors and Coningtons 

 had continued the opening up of the routes. 

 Grammarians who 



settled Hotis business — let it be! 



Properly based Oun — 

 Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic Ge, 



Dead from the waist down, 



had left indeed much that could be done, and 

 has been nobly done by the Jebbs and Ellises 

 and Goodwins who came a little later; but the 



