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orial office compels us to give some attention
to the doubts and difficulties with
which the Homeric question is beset, and
to entreat our reader, for a brief period,
to prefer his judgment to his imagination,
and to condescend to dry details.
Before, however, entering into particulars
respecting the question of this unity
of the Homeric poems, (at least of the Iliad,)
I must express my sympathy with the
sentiments expressed in the following remarks:—
"We cannot but think the universal admiration
of its unity by the better, the
poetic age of Greece, almost conclusive
testimony to its original composition. It
was not till the age of the grammarians
that its primitive integrity was called in
question; nor is it injustice to assert, that
the minute and analytical spirit of a
grammarian is not the best qualification