Imitate Another Man varies from Man more than Animal from Animal of Different

Species>

[P 152] . . . DEGREE Of excellence [of] GENIUS is different, in different times and different

places

and what shews it to be so is, that mankind have often changed their opinion upon this matter.

Never!

[P 153] . . . if genius is not taken for inspiration, but as the effect of close observation experience.

[P 154] . . . as . . . art shall advance, its powers will be still more and more fixed by rules.

to Improve upon each other But it is not so. Genius dies Possessor & comes not again

till Another is Born with It>

[155] . . . even works of Genius, like every other effect, . . . must have their cause, . . .

[P 157] . . . our minds should. . . continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of

grandeur.

Brings All that he has or Can have Into the World with him. Man is Born Like a

Garden ready Planted & Sown This World is too poor to produce one Seed>

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, . . .

Imbecillity. I always thought that the Human Mind was the most Prolific of All

Things & Inexhaustible

[P 158] . . . or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

Nonsense

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