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faults
against good taste and good morals. Let us hear how a learned man of the first rank writes
about Homer even so late as 1783: "Where does the good man live? Why did he remain
so long incognito? Apropos, can't you get me a silhouette of him?"
We demand thanks--not in our own name, for we are but atoms--but in the name of
philology itself, which is indeed neither a Muse nor a Grace, but a messenger of the gods:
and just as the Muses descended upon the dull and tormented Boeotian peasants, so
Philology comes into a world full of gloomy colours and pictures, full of the deepest,
most incurable woes; and speaks to men comfortingly of the beautiful and godlike figure
of a distant, rosy, and happy fairyland.
It is time to close; yet before I do so a few words of a personal character must be added,
justified, I hope, by the occasion of this lecture.
It is but right that a philologist should describe his end and the means to it in the short
formula of a confession of faith; and let this be done in the saying of Seneca which I thus
reverse--
"Philosophia facta est quæ philologia fuit."
By this I wish to signify that all philological activities should be enclosed and surrounded
by a philosophical view of things, in which everything individual and isolated is
evaporated as something detestable, and in which great homogeneous views alone remain.
Now, therefore, that I have enunciated my philological creed, I trust you will give me
cause to hope that I shall no longer be a stranger among you: give me the assurance that
in working with you towards this end I am worthily fulfilling the confidence with which
the highest authorities of this community have honoured me.

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