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verify our statements. All his former researches at Hissarlik, and even his last 

 visit and further excavations, did not, however, satisfy the indefatigable man, 

 who undertook in May, 1881, a journey through the Troad, very graphically told 

 (pp. 303-348) in his Troja. He wished to see whether there were any other pre- 

 historic sites worth excavating, and also what could be made out about the geog- 

 raphy of the country as described by Strabo. But, all through, the keen inter- 

 est of the traveller, loving to talk with and understand the natives, and enthusi- 

 astic at the sight of natural beauty, gives life and beauty to the narrative. 



* * * The example of Dr. Schliemann ought to lead the 



way to similar enterprises. Already the Dilettanti Society have added to the 

 glories of England by their costly and conscientious publications of Greek antiq- 

 uities; already the German government has shown what can be done with a 

 very moderate outlay, intelligently directed, at Olympia, and still later at Perga- 

 mus. Let us hope that among the many men who have inherited fortunes far 

 beyond the requirements even of luxury, some will apply their wealth to this 

 very noble end. 



For a noble end it is to inquire into the rudest remains of long-departed 

 races, and to inquire not by theory and conjecture, but by an examination of actual 

 facts. The pure savage attends only to the wants and pleasures of the day, and 

 when the sun sets, has no desire but to sleep. The higher men rise out of this 

 condition, the wider their sympathy with remote and bygone members of their 

 race, the more do they prolong into the night the interests and pursuits of the 

 day. This it is which has ennobled civilized man ; this it is which has given dig- 

 nity to the poorest and narrowest conditions of life. 



But now that he has been advised to abandon his arduous labor and devote 

 his remaining years to a better care of his delicate health, he can look back on 

 all these distinctions as only the index of his real desert — that of having added 

 permanently to human knowledge. What a cloud of conjecture and hypothesis 

 has he removed from both Troy and Mycenae ? For if his discoveries have in 

 turn given rise to many controversies, they are controversies about the interpre- 

 tation of facts, not about the respective probability of rival theories. He has 

 proved what modern skeptics were coming boldly to deny, that the old legends 

 of the Greeks had a local attachment, and were based upon facts in past history. 

 He showed that the sites of cities are permanent things, which men will not sur- 

 render even after violent catastrophes, and that we may always seek the old un 

 der the new. The growth of legends about tombs of great men is particularly 

 interesting, for it can be paralleled in the legendary history of other and distinct 

 branches of the Aryan race. Above all, he has added a great store of facts for 

 the comparative study of pre-historic man in the south of Europe. We are now 

 beginning to see the general features in the industry and the ornaments of prim- 

 itive men, and the curious truth that the pottery in all the pre-histOric strata -^X. 

 T;oy, up to the verge of the Greek remains, is perhaps less like these remains 

 than it is to the pre-historic pottery of Italy, Germany, or even Peru, shows that 

 we may yet attain to a general view of the state of man under certain conditio r,s 

 ofHfe. — Harpef's Monthly for May. 



