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26.<br />

bined may attain in a simpler<br />

age, and among a more single<br />

minded people?—Quarterly<br />

Review, l. c., p. 143, sqq.<br />

Heeren steers between the two<br />

opinions, observing that, "<strong>The</strong><br />

Dschungariade <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Calmucks is said to surpass the<br />

poems <strong>of</strong> <strong>Homer</strong> in length, as<br />

much as it stands beneath them<br />

in merit, and yet it exists only<br />

in the memory <strong>of</strong> a people<br />

which is not unacquainted with<br />

writing. But the songs <strong>of</strong> a nation<br />

are probably the last things<br />

which are committed to writing,<br />

for the very reason that<br />

they are remembered."— Ancient<br />

Greece. p. 100.<br />

Vol. II p. 198, sqq.

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