But they have proven again that a
generation of men who are able to defend their title to the spurs they
inherited are proper successors to their progenitors. [Applause.]
HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN
THE BEGINNINGS OF ART
[Speech of Heinrich Schliemann at the annual banquet of the Royal
Academy, London, May 5, 1877. Sir Gilbert Scott, the eminent
architect, took the chair in the absence of Sir Frederick Grant,
the President of the Academy. In introducing Dr. Schliemann, Sir
Gilbert Scott spoke as follows: "There is one gentleman present
among us this evening who has special claims upon an expression of
our thanks. Antiquarian investigation is emphatically a subject of
our own day. More has been discovered of the substantial vestiges
of history in our own than probably in any previous age; and it
only needs the mention of the names of Champollion, Layard,
Rawlinson, and Lipsius to prove that we have in this age obtained a
genuine knowledge of the history of art as practised in all
previous ages. Not only have we obtained a correct understanding of
the arts of our own race as exemplified in our own mediaeval
antiquities, but lost buildings of antiquity such as the Egyptian
labyrinth, the palace of Nineveh, the mausoleum of Halicarnassus,
the temple and statues of Olympia, and the temple of Diana at
Ephesus have been re-discovered and disinterred.
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