Excerpt from Homeric Synchronism: An Enquiry Into the Time and Place of Homer
The present work has for its nucleus two papers published in the Contemporary Review for the months of July and August 1874. Its composition has been due to a belief that the time has at length come for serious efforts to connect the Poems of Homer, by means of the internal evidence which they supply, with events and personages which are now known from other sources to belong to periods, already approximately defined, of the primeval history of our race.
When we consider how much learning and ingenuity Have been expended in a hundred efforts (scarcely any two of the assailants, however, agreeing except in their negative or revolutionary criticism) to disintegrate the Homeric Poems, to break up into nebulous fragments the Sun of all ancient literature, such an attempt as I have described may seem to some a daring one. A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
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