They are balked in their impression of the flat good earth, they can't get over this sphere business, they live in a fog of abstraction, and nothing is anything.

Save for purposes of abstraction, the earth is a great plain, with hills and valleys.

Why force abstractions and kill the reality, when there's no need?
As for children, will we never realize that their abstractions are never based on observations, but on subjective exaggerations?
If there is an eye in the face, the face is all eye.

It is the child soul which cannot get over the mystery of the eye.

If there is a tree in a landscape, the landscape is all tree.