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Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Works Oliver Goldsmith, M. B, Vol. 3 of 4: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings; The Citizen of the World
The schoolmen had formerly a very exact way of Computing the abilities of their saints or authors. Escobar, for instance, was said to have learning as five, genius as four, and gravity as seven. Caramuel was greater than he: his learning was as eight, his genius as six, and his gravity as thirteen. Were I to estimate the merits of our Chinese Philosopher by the 'saine scale, I would not hesitate to state his genius still higher; but as to his learning and gravity, these, I think, might safely be marked as nine hundred and ninety-nine, within one degree of absolute frigidity.
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