"It is true, the mind, as well as the eye, can take in objects larger than itself; but this is only true of great minds: for a man of low capacity, who considers a consummate genius, resembles one, who seeing a column for the first time, and standing at too great a distance to take in the whole of it, concludes it to be flat. Or, like one unacquainted with the first principles of philosophy, who, finding the sensible horizon appear a plain surface, can form no idea of the spherical form of the whole, which he does not see, and laughs at the account of antipodes, which he cannot comprehend."
Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]
11 entries in ESTC (1777, 1778, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1791, 1792, 1796).<br>
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<u>Essays on Various Subjects: Principally Designed for Young Ladies.</u> (London: Printed for J. Wilkie; and T. Cadell, 1777). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004802373.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;