Show genius as understood by old english writer by genius I 1 would understand that power or rather those powers of the mini mind which are capable of penetrating into all things within our reach and knowledge and of distinguishing their essential differences these ahr se are no other than invention and judg judgment went and they are both called by the collective name of genius as they are of those gifts of nature which we bring with us ua into the world concerning each of which many seem to have fallen into very great errors for by invention I 1 believe Is generally general I 1 Y un on der stood a creative faculty which would indeed prove most ro writers to have the highest pretentious to it whereas by invention Is really meant no more and so the word sig fifles than discovery dis coory or finding out or to explain it nt at large a quick and sagacious penetration into the true es serice of all the objects of our contemplation cont t temp em plat lation ion il enry fielding |