[104] An accomplished critic in the Quarterly Review July, (1856) treats this renunciation as one of Mr. Grote’s main titles to praise. [105] Grote’s Hist., vol. i. pp. 58, 9, 72. [106] I. vii. 2 and 3. [107] Hes. Fragm. xxviii. from Tzetzes ad Lyc. 284. [108] Hermann, Griech. Staats-Altherthum, Sect. 8. [109] See the list in Clinton, F. H. Vol. I., p. 46, note. [110] See inf. II. Sect. 2. [111] Mure, Lit. Greece, vol. i., p. 39, n. [112] Hes. Op. 157. [113] Od. iv. 561-9. [114] Bp. Thirlwall’s Hist. of Greece, chap. v. [115] Herod, ix. 73. [116] Encom. Hel. 21 et seq. [117] Il. iii. 144. [118] Il. i. 262. [119] See Od. iv. 12. [120] Lord Aberdeen’s Inquiry, p. 62. (1822.) [121] Inferno, I. 32. II. ETHNOLOGY. SECT. I. _Scope of the Inquiry._ I now proceed to attempt, in a series of inquiries, the practical application of the principles which have been stated in the preliminary Essay. The first of these inquiries might on some grounds be deemed the most hazardous. It is an inquiry into the Early Ethnology and Ethnography of Greece: or the Composition of the Greek nation, and the succession and Distribution of its races, according to the text of Homer. The religion, the politics, the manners, the contemporary history, of the Iliad and Odyssey, may justly be considered to form essential parts of the plan of the Poet, and to have been distinctly contemplated by his intention. But into anterior legends he only dips at times: and of the subject of the succession and distribution of races it probably formed no part of his purpose to treat at all; so that in the endeavour to investigate it we are entirely dependent, so far as he is concerned, upon scattered and incidental notices.