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ies before the invention of writing, so far as it is possible to ascertain. There were, of course, no written contemporary memorials of him. His personal history was the subject of tradition alone, and became, in the lapse of time, so intermingled with fables, that it is impossible to fix upon any one circumstance related with regard to him, as an undoubted truth. The other lived, it is true, in a highly enlightened age. He did not, as somebody has said, stand up grand and solitary, like Teneriffe, in the midst of the ocean. He rather resembled Mont Blanc, in the middle of the Alps. He was surrounded by great men, and he was a head and shoulders taller than them all. It cannot but strike everybody as extremely singular, that we should know no more of him, individually, than we do know. In fact, so far as the undoubted knowledge which we have of his acts and sayings may serve to give us an idea of his character, he is as unknown to us as Homer himself. The names of the two men ar