ABSTRACT
The great and the little have a real existence in the nature of things: but they both find pretty much the same level in the mind of man. It is a common measure, which does not always accommodate itself to the size and importance of the objects it represents. We pamper little griefs into great / ones, and bear great ones as well as we can. We can afford to dally and play tricks with the one, but the others we have enough to do with, without any of the wantonness and bombast of passion. To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations. We often make life unhappy in wishing things to have turned out otherwise than they did, merely because that is possible to the imagination which is impossible in fact. The chapter also presents an account of the manner in which the ancient sculptors combined great and little things.
