Of course I am jealous of the _éclat_ that Flinders Petrie, Layard and
Schliemann get for having unburied cities, but I do not see why I need
be; the great thing is to unbury the city, and I believe I have unburied
Scheria as effectually as Schliemann unburied Troy. [_The Authoress of
the Odyssey_.] True, Scheria was above ground all the time and only
wanted a little common sense to find it; nevertheless people have had all
the facts before them for over 2500 years and have been looking more or
less all the time without finding. I do not see why it is more
meritorious to uncover physically with a spade than spiritually with a
little of the very commonest common sense.