Show genius as understood by old english writer by genius I 1 would und unit that power or rattier rather those powers of the mind which are capable of penetrating into all things within our reach and knowledge and of distinguishing their essential differences these are no 1 other than invention and judgment and they are both called by the collective name of genius as they are of those gifts of nature which we bring with us into the world concerning each of which ninny seem to have fallen into very great errors for by invention I 1 believe Is r generally enc rally un j der stood a creative faculty which would indeed prove most romance writers to have hae the highest pretentious i to it whereas by invention is 18 really j meant no more and so the word sig unifies than discovery or finding ending out i or to explain it at large a quick and saga sagacious clous penetration into the true es eai sence of all the objects of our conj temptation henry melding fielding I 1 |