Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measured by my soul:
The mind 's the standard of the man.
-- Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
-- Horae Lyricae, Book ii, False Greatness
I do not know how other people would set about the task. I can
therefore only tell you how I myself have approached the matter, and I
must submit to the reproach that my way of solving the problem is the
outcome of my individual prejudice....
