Question

What comment does the author make about "men of large calibre" through this analogy?

They show us how to correct our faults.

They are able to correct their own faults.

Their faults do not reduce their worth to society.

Their faults appear much greater than they really are.

Answer 1

Representative Men
by Ralph Waldo Emerson (excerpt)

As it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes, though defaced by some crack or blemish, than in drops of water, so men of large calibre, though with some eccentricity or madness, like Pascal or Newton, help us more than balanced mediocre minds.