Talent means energy and persistence and nothing more!
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon.
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.