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PREFACE
This
book
various
a
work
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of
the
this
work
is the
been
in
puzzle
the
past
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than
place
who
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created
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aspects
and
give
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be
us
as
relation
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possible,
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is
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problem
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the
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men
it is
place
fields
of
ogy,
psychol-
that
sciences
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developed
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in
book
of
man
discussed, and
correlations
the
this
vii
the
study
was
to
nature.
society,
the
1.
will
be
and
of
work
made
and
man
sirable,
de-
Chapter
genius
to
be
this
in
place
will
attempts
between
of
second
varied
always
of
detail
book
presented,
as
not
species. In
purpose
results,
the
on
while
in
be
in
scientific
considerations
advantageous
will
make
to
which,
stamp,
briefly
primary
not
the
third
the
other
does
about
the
have
problem.
genius
science.
in
inevitably color
study
human
the
the
using
from
some
thoughts
phenomenon
will
and
individual
here
a
to
genius
wherever
all this
this
And
question.
information
considered
mention
discussed,
in
of
the
approach
and
It is
problem.
own
an
of
manner,
art
originator
There
genius.
biographical information
in
the
on
of
the
or
excellence.
with
to
way
works
of
problem
them
plan
empirical
available
that
the
may
an
it in
various
genius. My
of
other
its
me.
the
science
at
of
eye
the
such
concerned
no
biochemistry
It is realized
Let
today
use
bearing
said
works
utilize
to
medicine,
on
that
make
can
possible
to
be
is
all the
creation, of
human
the
that is,how
of
look
to
standpoint
mind,
fascinated
always
studies
by illuminating
first of
has
the
the
to
anything
various
can
There
exist.
yet
of
offer
to
possible
the
in
interest
It is
only from
produce
that
aspect
science.
as
besides, and
aspect,
to
continued
my
fields
it has
able
was
well
as
these
what
is another
second
It
art
in
merits:
objective
of
outcome
of
branches
particular
ear.
the
is
to
his
satisfy my
find,
work.
own
viii
Preface
serve
objectivepurpose
an
as
well.
larly
problem of genius is of general importance, and readers, simi-
attracted
if the
Even
general problem
are
of
be
might
of scientific and
might
deductions
our
And
by
and
works
great
it
of
been
To
think
and
but it is
never
interest
in
of lack
of suitable methods,
The
them,
if
even
of
concept
will be found.
science
two
oppose
Of
course,
used
as
this
in
with
meet
act
as
stimulus.
far ahead,
too
today.
be
study, will
to
found
designate only
and
men,
research
even
project,because
First,it is used
ways.
altogetherfrom
not
and
and stimulate
possibilities
feasible
not
creative
the
might
is
think
to
of such
execution
an
genius,
severely restricted in
restrictions
these
too
is
canny
un-
of that power
roots
of the
feasible,illustrations of
was
art
appreciation
consideration
suggestions about
have
volved
in-
various
finally,at
geniuses in everyday
to
of the many
Wherever
helpful too.
prove
particularlyinterest
not
understanding and
artistic achievements
creators
discussion.
the
help. For
of their
power
should
references
many
articles that
and
life,in books
so
such
as
reading this
in
our
considerations.
general approval,
These
might
some
vigorously.
will
ourselves
we
have
occasionallyfrom
deviate
to
lesser men
will be considered, mainly
self-imposedrestriction;
will be
of the scarcityof the truly great. This matter
because
this
reason
of the
it would
for
in
genius. If the
would
on
gifted persons
to
throw
some
is
the purpose
light upon
those
2.
used
that of
own
in
wider
sense,
highly giftedpersons.
project.To
of this essay.
exceptional and
appeared, and
puzzling phenomenon
clarifythe
to
purpose
were
defeatingour
be
not
with
1 and
our
concept
is
this restriction
practicallycoincide
This, however,
Chapters
of the
Our
in
very
true
discourse
purpose
many
is
ways
rarely only,
genius.
CONTENTS
Page
vii
Preface
I.
PROBLEM
THE
OF
THE
GENIUS
Chapter
1.
Basic
2.
Limits
II.
of
Questions
of the
the
of
Concept
of
Problem
3.
Quasi-external
4.
Unselfishness
5.
Desire
6.
Invention
7.
Mastery
8.
Universality
9.
Depth
Genius
10
OF
CHARACTERISTICS
ESSENTIAL
Genius
THE
Compulsion
GENIUS
17
21
for
Survival
25
29
Craft
of
of
of
36
Mind
44
Perception
48
10.
Memory
52
11.
Perseverance
$6
12.
Prolificness
61
III.
SOCIAL
AND
PERSONAL
OF
CHARACTERISTICS
GENIUS
THE
Traits
67
Interests
72
13.
Character
14.
Outside
15.
Relation
16.
Diluted
17.
Genius
18.
Sex
19.
Age
92
20.
Illness
98
21.
Insanity
to
Society
Concept
as
of
75
Genius
79
Employe
82
Life
85
103
ix
The
Nature
GENIUS
IV.
the
of
AND
Genius
HUMAN
SPECIES
Chapter
Page
Genius
22.
Woman
23.
Apparent
24.
Genius
25.
Pseudogenius
Ill
Prodigy
Child
Variety
Future
as
116
122
127
WORKS
V.
OF
Appeal
GENIUS
26.
International
27.
Survival
28.
Originality
149
29.
Humor
155
30.
Sincerity
161
31.
Power
166
32.
Complexity
171
33.
Mirror
34.
Sex
in
of
in
the
the
Future
174
Genius
VI.
35.
Picture
36.
The
Index
of
Distant
the
143
Times
of
Works
137
Genius
Future
178
CONCLUSIONS
187
194
199
THE
NATURE
OF
THE
GENIUS
THE
PROBLEM
OF
THE
GENIUS
BASIC
This
it is
treatise
In
speaking,
such
thing
This
does
has
as
its
without
the
shall
We
deal
our
statements
Let
it
called
and
it
sociology;
who,
world
than
The
answer
to
to
the
group
much
as
question
the
is
the
more
more
the
who
factual
knowledge
difficult
of the
two.
is
values
than
This
does
it and
the
biology,
to
more
person
psychology
small
very
in
way
first the
of
group
the
From
human
of
works
aspect
the
to.
require
them.
of
be
cannot
definition
very
alluded
group,
analysis of
others.
freedom,
by strengthening
genius,
the
created
the
and
of
fields in which
many
concerns
philosophy, religion
of
the
he
freedom,
values
together.
because
of
tradicted
con-
or
that
concerns
one
ments
state-
available.
contributed
taken
is
nature
product
of
it
have
abuse
see
certain
question, what
This
make
can
desires.
so
whenever
as
subject
checked
feasible
as
is
with
rest
individuals
one
hence,
the
is, in fact,
bit of
to
not
question
problem
do
to
all the
the
on
the
constituting
has
alone.
person
hinges
the
nevertheless,
our
if he
briefly
The
he
time;
quite
enjoys
material,
problem
Thus
Our
strictly
are,
such
about
continually
rigorously
discussed.
be
might
arts
subjects.
genius. There
all the
wander
factual
the
the
as
there
as
writer
being
thus
as
their
group,
nevertheless,
subject
with
individuals
of
the
well
as
genius.
of
He
intriguing
as
as
about
all about
guard
danger
endeavour,
genius.
the
subject
deal
GENIUS
OF
sciences
that
to
imagination
outline
me
which
his
with
and
of
the
great
know
on
expert.
an
let
even
may
be
to
by
of
who
science
genius,
belong
not
PROBLEM
peculiar advantages.
need
not
the
know
experts
no
THE
fields
who
does
topic
with
many
experts
are
present
no
deals
complex.
there
OF
QUESTIONS
the
first, and
These
limited
of
values,
attention
our
this
creation
all arts,
matter
the
angle
as
the
is possible,
sciences,
requires
is, therefore,
the
of the Genius
Nature
The
question ought
Logically,the second
it
first,since
discussed
be
to
be called
might
sequence
analyticalmethod.
the
our
will
We
of their
shall
known
geniuses,attempt
this sequence
best.
let
Hence,
us
some
the
we
of
This
to
attempt
hard
complex
definition in
nutshell,neither would
is often
This
value.
full of
visualize and
to
creature.
the
with
case
It is then
less
or
clearlybefore
When
from
think
we
eyes.
enough, are
of each
basis for the
from
viewed
answer
we
gem,
possiblecombinations.
illuminate
in themselves
lesser order
for these,
to
be
of definition
Newton,
mind, which,
our
iously
cur-
They
few
may
are
who
has
two
or
this
to
to
be
these
occupy
those
angles.
independence of
and
can
present
in
do
in all
occur
one
individual,
be in evidence.
There
preciselythose that
three
good
taken
they
all be
may
different site,each
from
that
is
facets of
various
are
definitions:
strive
or
subject from
our
is
definition
to
not
firsttask is then
follows
missing,or only
be little doubt
at
position: all
conclusion
significant
be
to
come
located
each
different
positionsand
may
be difficult
such
Goethe
seeking. There
are
few
man.
to
of the
not
I wish
the work
practicalkind
genius,whether
other.
phenomenal
to
consideration.
of essential characteristics
number
this
of
our
such
turn
genius,as
succinct
better
pose
pur-
man
exceptions;having allowed
conciseness.
lost the
have
we
our
of
It would
genius is
of
man
be of great
it will suit
ways,
nature,
of their work.
features
first about
discourse
description
insightinto their
an
essential
describing the
proceed by
While
from
start
painter or
characteristic
can
unite
writer
of
features
Basic
Questions
missing.Finally,a
with
only
This
one
contributes
the concept
to
of
beginning with
senses,
artist or
it is shallow.
as
such
of
What
the other
at
is in
matter
relativelyminor
going
am
to
the
to
word
of
is endowed
genius.
confusion
is used
in
the
extreme
in this respect
is
sense
gamut
wide
as
of nomenclature, and
realityone
importance, since
state
with
variety of
quiterestricted,passingthrough
one
This
little
who
one
attributes
genius.The
not
Genius
of
scientist is
of the necessary
two
or
situation
regard
minor
the Froblem
of
names
is to
certain
arbitrary.
are
degree
also
arbitrary.
order
In
keep
to
restrict the
clear and
matters
designationgenius
themselves
all
those
to
all of the
nearly
or
free
of
confusion, let
individuals
essential
characteristics should
them
to
genius.Those
who
have
we
exhibit
be
tical
prac-
only
in
to
tively
rela-
designated as such;
genial in the
genial persons,
as
be
not
that unite
characteristics
us
let's
related
sense:
to
genius.
Let
in reference
digressbriefly
me
of
essentially
of
usage
prostitutionof
to
lower
concepts.
of
values.
thoughts
of
friend, originally
to
refer
suffered the
supreme
to
same
creative
from
an
any
casual
fate.
child
diluted
expressionsof their
underlyingelevated
true
concept
who
usage
with
is the
is
connexions
meaning,
minds
great
by
not
it
only
now
genius
no
particularlygood
is proper;
and
of the word
word
applied, and
human
and
vitamins'
use
describe
meaning, but
of
word
appliedin
acquaintance. The
to
ally
origin-
be called
may
and intimate
it is often
power,
their
truths in science
Originally used
the
philosophy.
signifyinga complex
one,
example
While
names.
widening
procedure which
restricted,warm
the
by
apt
to
designatea
facetiously,
certain
vein. Another
same
of
matter
others in the
used
are
the ultimate
on
Against this,one
'the
this
certain concepts
one,
is
originalmeaning
system
like
pull down
to
high level
The
we
significance,
little
word
to
has
of
means
at
does
ing.
spellit rob
actuallydegrades
loftycharacter, tacitlyintimat-
The
concept
and elevated
rare
Returning
the
to
merely form
series possess
endpoints of
two
and
even
"
not
all as
at
geniusand genialman,
By
They
means!
no
genial characteristics;
and
is irrelevant
of the
middle
in the
Many
of essential
them
count
we
is
genius
true
vague.
limited number
class
which
to
the
case
strictlydemarcated.
not
are
Genius
differentiation between
is continuous
them
the
of
believed.
our
the
in this
"
as
classes
two
Nature
matter
of
will doubt
the
partly a
personaltaste.
Let
illustrate this
me
genius of
Keats:
to
susceptible
genius
or
discourse
if for
little of his
knows
one
fascination
of immediate
reaction
to
his
personality,
Chaucer
is not
other
quote
In
few
last
my
further,
step
one
words
examples it
not
was
same
try
to
manner
as
describe
we
used
great
is
there
Theoretically,
and
work,
cannot
that
genius is bound
will
be
expect
correlation
conditions
one
In order
manner.
Donne
with
of
fine
genius.
in
matter:
criterion. In
shall
we
ephemeral products
meteor.
will
We
find
exacting.
task
truly
istics
work, the character-
of
this second
as
the
interesting
that
and
and
further
our
John
we
he is called
the second
about
differen
in-
of his caliber,
more
might mention
whose
strike the reader as genial,
noteworthy
poems
He
is an
but not
example of the genialman
more.
achievement, but he could not be called a genius.
Now
ing:
overwhelm-
as
scarcityof
of the
because
than
reason
reader
any
pleasure,partlywith
opportunityto
shall have
Going
great.
on
we
no
example. Nobody
an
quietly,partlywith
him
reads
He
if
even
the power
poetry. The
writings have
one
by
work
creator
between
the other in
of
the
of
man
genius
and sufficient
necessary
to
become
two,
the
evident
man
other,
and
we
throughout.
LIMITS
"
thus
OF
CONCEPT
THE
restricted
the
thus
Having
before
This
refers
The
the
to
imaginable
field. This
statements
will
be
at
this
of
much
the
such
as
of
which
whose
picture
of
of
geniuses.
As
be
usage,
holds
men,
of
true
for
essential
the
are
these
these
however
features
because
be
gradually
sufficient
coming
forth-
here
to
as
of
that
of
great
and
men
are
well.
We
great
in
certain
of
the
truly
the
form
the
value
in
actions
fall
this group
Into
great
that
said
in these
men
itary
mil-
genius
found
missing
called
In
shall
be
all
veloped,
de-
statesman
later
"
unite
must
that
characteristics
pages.
groups
earlier, be
defined
as
following
be
record
concrete
down
laid
is
this
By
or
shall
we
on,
large factories
many
them
possible
action.
series
term,
man,
will
this conclusion
of
founders
every
certain
politicians,secondly the
and
we
the
in
of these
'genius of action'
in
prove
of
consequences.
the
great
or
believe
recalled,
one,
to
their
of
sense
by
politician some
action
an
We
of
one
restriction.
to
be
It will
consist
not
diplomats
characteristics
led
of
renown.
may
sary,
neces-
be
will
phrase, genius
does
by
strict
in the
not
philosophical system
all statesmen,
cannot
be
or
is measured
leaders
the
work
rather
but
book,
first of
the
hears
one
man
this treatise.
now
ideas.
our
Sometimes
meant
of
only the
chapter
attempt
proof
of
arise
may
In this
an
would
for
needed
course
briefly outline
correction.
juncture. This
it is
geniuses
without
yet
men
active.
are
is that
needs
made,
material
the
in
view
to
still another
apply
men
view
genius
occurrence,
to
fields in which
generally accepted
thoroughly
rarest
further,
proceeding
of
concept
of
GENIUS
OF
of
group
corporations. According
geniuses.
shall
see
limited
great.
10
In
Yet
as
we
the
to
objection
same
proceed
aspects,
fairness,
lack
we
general
some
are
that
these
of
the
forced
to
conclude
that, as
Michelangelo
It is
a
statesman
that
this is
decision in such
from
but
some,
brought
cases
severe
be
must
we
not
the
discipline,
mathematical
cases, such
also borderline
are
personalinclination.
with objection
restrictions will meet
if some
clarityis to be
consequent,
be left
may
that such
I realize
Even
always possible.
Aurelius, although an emperor,
exceptions are
genius: Marcus
philosopher.There
be
can
also
equals of Shakespeare,
the
not
are
11
Newton.
or
be understood
to
was
as
rule, they
of Genius
of the Concept
Limits
problem
to
is,after all,our
hand, which
on
purpose.
Having
in which
that results in
concrete
products
to
not
noted
understood
early age,
Austrian
went
so
far
scientists. A
among
read. There
or
sciences,and
the
to
as
mains
the do-
encounter
some
we
that there
the greatest,
scientist,
even
three
are
ficultie
dif-
further
Weininger, who,
writer, Otto
maintain
activity
philosophical
because
suicide
contemporaries, committed
his
by
heard
be seen,
can
we
elusive
Here
systems, including religions.
The
left in which
then
are
subjects?These are
creative activityis possible,an
our
arts, the
of the
fields,those
such
after
look
confidence
with
fields
far, what
so
gone
be
can
no
according
at
an
genius
to
him,
cated
demara clever
explorerof strictly
highly talented specialist,
reach the loftyheights
problems, who, however, could never
dwell
the trulygreat minds.
where
ophers
Only great artists and philos-
was
claim
could
being.
Following
personalfeeling,let us
thesis,although there
my
place above
us
scientific
intuition,I
say,
is
human
cannot
particularpoint of
one
whether
wonder
discovery
go
isn't
it is
years
If Einstein
another
much
it. If
hits upon
had
great
not
not
by
stated the
theoretical
later. The
one,
progress
mind
it is bound
be made
to
equivalence of
would
of science
have
might
by another.
and
mass
enounced
it
held
by
be
up
energy,
not
too
twenty
The
12
so, but
or
years
science:
Nature
of
longer.The
not
the
Genius
holds
same
Faraday's discovery of
for
true
experimental
electromagneticinduction
or
Rutherford's
bound
to
discovery of atomic transmutation
were
those particular
have definitive proofs that
periods.We
examples of dual discoveries: those made by two
by many
at
come
this is so
persons
within
almost
simultaneouslyby
first observed
Semmelweis
as
are
many
by
virtue
Lister.
and
by Crookes, although he
introduced
was
were
recognize them
the actual discovery.There
made
did
X-rays
not
such
more
thin
theoretical
whether
matters,
layer of
servatio
calling for ob-
or
soil have
been
unearthed
by
wonder
might
predecessors. Realizing this situation, one
whether
the great scientist is truly the exceptionalmind
associated
his
with
of
concept
our
is also time-conditioned,
work
not
write
not
work
of any
one
own
one
and
times. At
man
only, but
the
scientific
the artistis
had
there
be written
never
difference
one
any-
had
very
few
exceptions,
If the artistic
products
considered
pieces,
master-
callingtheir creator
in
scientific achievement, particularly
in
logicalerror
more
the
people
were
mostly the
complexityof
involved
in
one
we
call both
output
the
project.A
or, as
the
our
of
problems
often necessitate
Should
not
scientists
artists and
With
man.
poet
Commedia.
between
only one
can
by
If Dante
creator.
the Divina
of the apparatus
Who,
beauty
today, when
or
of
be alike,whereas
it will
it
statement
matters
concerns
periodsthey, too,
not
magnitude
cooperationof two
discovery is made.
no
a
earlier
is
with
It
this connection.
Paul
there
so
have
never
man,
then
genius.Not
to
is the result of
art
Such
great artist or philosopher.
doubt, yet it is to a large extent
can
poems
only
sense
pertinentin
of
wrong.
two
another
is yet
There
is
or
answer
would
existed,we
no
particularpoem,
else. In this
which
true
correct
imagination.Unlike
values. No
only one
does
of
matter
human
and
be
of
with
Contrast
genius.
the
significant
we
may
thank
case
may
be, all
Limits
three
of
presence
several
rather
seems
fact
effected
by
sciences
is
due
also
of
of
four
controlled
Where
artists
and
of
the
phenomenon
an
assumption;
that
The
the
they
apply
will
of
spite
scientists,
chief
in
truth
in
foregoing
they
will
an
proof
features
without
prove
of
media,
of
would
be
will
of
meant
were
help
in
the
from
as
This,
the
part
have
discussions
When
the
to
pression
im-
consideration
far, is only
so
we
chapters.
will
scientist.
a
of
between
following
of
the
greater.
established,
great
of
number
still
I
workers.
co-
erated
gen-
result
differences
in
are
to
be
stated?
erroneous.
genius
other
the
day,
latter
the
was
Frank.
and
some
supplied
be
the
Tamm
the
servation
non-con-
radiation,
was
fundamental
constraint
remarks
fundamental
controversy
these
the
besides
Wu,
probability
exclusion
genius
the
the
all
is
The
significance,
and
Yang
and
in
of
this
numerous.
principle,
far-reaching
achieved
is
rather
are
Cerenkov,
fusion
the
that,
When
Vavilov,
men:
are
field
although
years,
deniable
un-
an
days
the
in
ficult
dif-
work.
refractive
in
particles
often
these
prize
physical
new
place
it is
Yet
the
rare,
same
it is
great.
Nobel
is
the
and
discoveries
recent
Lee,
of
contributors
is
of
species
genius,
true
really
the
principle
among
nuclear
significant
of
13
time
discoveries
discovery
fast
the
independent
ago
cooperation
that
the
in
split
years
a
is
is
Genius
same
one
result,
team
parity,
The
work
such
the
of
significant
As
few
of
by
them
simultaneous,
of
of
occasionally
to
discovery
only
many
teams.
Instances
result
that
fact
at
If
which
Concept
the
them
of
unlikely.
decide
to
of
view
In
geniuses?
the
of
basic
follow.
tion;
introduc-
find
II
ESSENTIAL
CHARACTERISTICS
OF
GENIUS
THE
The
18
devils. I
no
of
At
one.
with
such
notions
vague
genius seems
the
rather
by
to
and
act
result of
be
whether
them.
of
create,
his action
justlyor
This
than
the
at
ago
'I
Worms,
I
compulsion
say he
will
even
far
as
go
he
his
to
human
the
and
as
hates
did
alluded
to
used
to
mean
average
ordinary
to
of
human
extreme
promise
com-
he
case
apologize,or
have been temporarily out
must
does
heed
not
free
not
does
And
mind
to
it,perhaps
according
act
not
seem
this observation
is
the external
he
the uproar
Perhaps he does
through whom
account
to
else will
it,or
judgment. He
observer.
of the
illustration
called
the
his statements,
contrast,
purely human
the
before
words
offend,in the
withdraw
hint that he
an
motivate
be outlawed, but he is
to
the
to
genius is a medium
The
not
them
put
in mind
keep
ordinary man,
and
justify
to
inapplicableto
to
His
otherwise,' is
An
is
applied,
be
may
will evaporate.
Luther.
public condemnation.
likingor
to
no
genius,in
The
of his mind.
caused
do
other mortals.
seems
if you
but
man,
be the
to
seem
with
of mankind,
spoke of Martin
can
not
case
the paradox
thesis,
entirelyand
retract
is the
rest
talkingabout.
am
He
free will,which
pictorially
act
paradoxical,since it
average
of
be taken
does
creation
as
the
to
not,
of the
moment
Diet
and
notion
sound
may
pictorialnature
A
gether
dispense alto-
to
nature.
deliberate motivation
lower
peg
his
One
by the devil,must
obsessed
prime feature of
virtue
able
of
more
then, that
It appears,
shall be
know
we
lieu
concepts,
on
to
convey
Genius
the
to
the
of
in
using this terminologyquasi metaphorically
am
scientific
more
Nature
force
be
to
correct.
ly
previous-
that
expression;no wonder
logic and sentiments, sees
an
server,
ob-
in the
man
know
whether
character
seems
I don't
of
let
to
genius.Having described
me
say
few
words
me
obviously I
the
it from
about
have
most
the
the way
to
this
myself clearly,but
I express
make
all features
pertinent of
standpointof
the
full
man
use
an
himself
of my
pulsory
com-
observer,
might feel
imagination.
Quasi-External Compulsion
My
vivid
moderately
imagination
finds
19
in
support
some
my
medical
a foreign
experience.I am thinkingof a wounded
person,
body lodging under his epidermis.A complicated series of processes
is
or
begins,depending on whether the body carries microbes
sterile. In either instance the process
is highly irritative and painful
the victim. He has the strong feelingthat there is some
traneous
exto
which
by right does not belong there,
body in his own
which, therefore,must
and
within
his power
is accomplished,the
Perhaps
better
since in this
is not
to
woman
bullet
about
or
this
sliver. Modern
of childbirth,
female
companion,
surplus,and
as
illhumored
and
is
vividly
an
this
deal
or-
picture
man
freed
not
to
counterpart
operating
co-
of his natural,physiological
usually
women
student, what
medical
prospectivemother.
is the irritated,
excited
foreign body,
painfulprocedure, but
experiencesas
my
the
to
is in
is out.
analogy is a
much
from
it was
He
case
too
remember
promote
body
quite as foreign as
don't know
out.
come
and
bodily
discomfort.
A
genius,working
agonies.He
The
work,
is
one
on
of his creations,must
ilar
experience sim-
sufferer,primarilymentally,but
also
ly.
physical-
an
he feels elated
so
much
pain. It
about
to
vent
to
effort
his
express
the sounds
and
be
of the
the
right forms
and
most
that
seem
innermost
at
that
causes
the
to
him
feelingsa
wanders
moments
extract
the
work
similar
genius
visions,trying to
melodies
his sacred
must
produce
trying to formulate
to
must
around
tosses
or
able
has
woman
be
to
most
emotions.
colors
from
by
sheer
means
of
nothing
appropriate to
give
Particularlythis
last
the
melody, in
The
20
contrast
to
of empty
Nature
and
space,
is
the
of
Genius
from
literally
vision, comes
clearlythe
most
nowhere,
out
extraneous,
of all creations.
Lest
give
might be accused
few
examples.
of
Anton
Bruckner,
symphony
his life.This
is his
therefore
work
in this last
the
him
to
after
with.
cope
ten
him
without
have
his control, he
had
remain
We
and
with
had
and
to
he
what
years
later. Not
him
as
saw
as
Finally,let
what
it was,
in his
the
when
not
was
if not,
of it, or,
it
us
he
look
was
remained
not
was
but
using
at
hard
that had
It
next.
himself
body
Goethe
and
until
1905
tough
knew
for
the
an
struggleto
his death fifty
external force
effect
to
complete
ingresscaused
his Faust.
his mind
that such
partialvictory over
enough
knew
lain hidden,
it. His
reach
to
for another
when
fight
showing
was
convinced
was
strong
forty.He
his
was
comprising electromagnetism
his frail
dark
It
not
ing
gesticulat-
unborn:
yet
as
Bruckner, he achieved
eighty-secondyear,
treasure
second
completion.
in the woods,
lasted from
vision
could
medium
of the force
written
of
sake
hold
in the
basis. He
tried very
breakthrough. Nobody
urge
in vain,
"
to
press
ex-
ejectincomprehensiblesounds.
system
unified
unlike
he
the unknown,
using
effort
an
to
his power
great for
too
of his mind.
out
and
arms
build
to
existed, and
grasp
if
as
tearingit away
his
wave
gravitationon
system
take
wanted
Einstein
wanted
was
it,justfor
finished
himself
to
minute
fight:he
being able
ment.
closingmove-
between
distance
in darkness
either could
teasing demon
one
he
of
ones
finale,and
the
as
of what
muttering
it to him
Deum
on
unfinished.
about
read
last
was
within
to
the
years,
again he made
and
Again
would
it
the
but
lay concealed
he died
years
class composer
With
his Te
clear visions
symphony,
which
work
ten
to
told, worked
are
we
masterpiece,although without
had
have
must
so
for about
He
and
The
had
that he
forty years.
was
fermenting,
mature
to
come
him.
first part
to
more
He
was
say;
finished it
enough for
to
life.
UNSELFISHNESS
the
In
preceding
stressed.
At
chapter
the
present,
is apparent
be
chemical
the
methods,
he
genius
future
and
be
must
and
acts
of
such
be
was
pulsion
com-
only; it
is
to
and
by physical
analyzed
specific compounds
to
genius
quasi-external
observation
pure
it will
reduced
unselfish, the
in
striking manner.
his best
word
inhuman
in
present
God
will
right
This
in order
to
his actions
must
be
must
into
It would
one.
create,
he
so
or
of
self
your-
this elementary
highly
to
purely personal
guiding
motive
maintain
that
He
must
live
his livelihood.
But
to
interest.
often
diametricallyopposed
even
ceptional.
ex-
genius
true
if his
own
care
of
care
after
least
the
exaggeration
an
look
his
background
take
must
in
otherwise:
against his
naive, childish,
are
the
taking
at
emphasized
disregards
or
appears
be
be
is
genius does
abnormal
cannot
driven
says,
who
person
feature
for
blamed
that
when
and
is
genius
proverb
appear
It
degree.
external
everything
you.
exceptional
pronounced
well-being
protect
the
be
the
used,
was
of
can
person
it follows
compulsion,
inhuman
behavior
No
human
an
The
personal interests;even
and
virtual
by
creates
unselfish.
say,
is
basis
of
in
brain.
If
the
element
impersonal
existence
the
on
in
that
hoped
the
to
his
interests.
More
precisely,he
the
power,
be
a
two
is it
he
reasonably
luxurious
salient
point
well-to-do
is that
in human
treasures
genius
If
case.
is
proverbially
he
he
might
not
be
the
covet
21
is
is
his
da
son
not
of
wealth;
associated
with
the
main
in
point,
his
time,
life-
making
him
actually
loved
wealthy
if he
or
may
work,
Vinci
wealth
life. There
appreciated
for
reward
Leonardo
man.
does
genius
sufficient
obtain
life. Or
attaining either
on
always
might
course.
scarcity of worldly
neither
bent
not
coveted
most
exceptions, of
is
father.
happens
to
The
have
22
The
he often
some,
house
with
the money
by
was
no
orchards
has
that
means
him
power
over
power
are
genius with
from
toward
without
Maecenas
but he led
he
specific
he received
simple life,
as
is
above
contentment
which
power,
genius will
of it in
use
modest, and
him
to
and
praisingsimplicity
irresistibleattraction. A
giving
makes
are
came
poor,
an
Genius
demands
in the country,
His
manner.
need
not
effort. Horace
the
of
practical,businesslike
usuallydoes
Nature
for many
strive for
position
others. Accidental
instances providing a
far more
exceptionalthan similar instances
not
The
both
aims, wealth
two
As
egoistic.
said
bestow
upon
As
pointed
could
whole,
force
mankind
genius
that drives
aim
Whatever
interest. The
own
fact remains
deliberate
to
they are
which
as
mentally
fundaa
is
ing.
lack-
victim. He
to
benefit mankind
whom
the force is
the
means
then it was
sense
through
conception of this force
detailed
our
him
uses
up
is
particularman
in that
primarilyand
him
out
in his
not
is
which
treasure
toward
the
similar
are
not
were
power,
before, the
unselfish. The
to
and
may
as
acting.
mental
be, the funda-
genius,without his
of mankind, acting free of
true
egoisticmotives.
because
Emerson,
the ways
of the
of his
many
condemnation
of
adversities. For
to
serve
mankind,
service
many
Recalling the
that
to
statement
be consequent
and
conditions
to
be
met.
which
he could
his conscientious
made
in
Chapter 1,
unrelenting,or even
a
for
man
to
fulfillonly
thinking
it may
martyr,
be great. There
be
is
are
Unselfishness
Mozart
by
admired
was
contemporaries,but
of his
some
he been
popular. Had
means
no
by
popular, he
would
him
the
high
music, particularlyhis
incomprehensible to the
need
of money
further
force
in his
he
it
he
was
who
words, he
Paradoxicallyas
it
Knowing
would
to
his
that
certain
mean
of the
one
mission, in
fulfill his
need
No
are
would
to
and
many,
raised. It
financiers
and
The
such
spend
much
convinced
We
have
compulsion
the
It is
what
am
said that
benefit
be
might
one
is
Jesus'sact
in order
to
others
to
a
now
again
that
appears
will
the
ciple
princoming
forth-
be
it unnecessary
will
be
far
to
from
say.
genius is always
as
find
in mind.
have
we
applicationof
might
ject
sub-
militaryleaders,
statesmen,
It
deserves
present
our
to
him
which
matter
the great
point; there
the limits of
that
readers
going
of mankind
take
to
one
the
within
some
consequent
the
not
drives
authorities
mind
great
it
keep
to
the
prove
left open.
this matter,
on
which
to
among
was
Some
course.
time
by
of
question of
be classed
cannot
confided
He
easy.
to
was
to
that there
by
instances
suggested
was
just evolved.
to
the
teaching.It
secret
is,instead, another
knowledge. There
mention.
In Chapter 2
to
his demand.
heed
think
can
own
was
means
realized
executed
further
anyone
perhaps
fulfill the
utter
quote
that
death, he needed
to
not
consequently
most
no
betrayal of the
he
teaching
pupils with
task, and
pupils who
the
among
In
order
compelled
was
by
was
condemnation
of the sombre
care
him
to
prophecy
his
beginning of
prophet.
he
poor,
sounds, this
specialmission
secret.
be
to
in
external
the
identified with
be
to
was
reproaches
Jesus.The
it occurred
the
by
them
made
nearly always
was
of
story
In the
this;later
meant
him
his
of
was
enough for
not
Testament.
conscious
not
was
is the
be
historically
case
mired
ad-
be
quite carelessly.
spent
strikinginstance
was
subtletyand
which
operas,
he
not
average
he
which
may
in the Old
laid down
for
him, notwithstanding he
nothing to
meant
2 3
the
whole.
motivated
and
guided by
accomplishment of
A
financier
or
matters
statesman
The
24
think
might
he
feel that
might
that
he
of
nation
It
would
is unable
as
hard
to
fragmentary
and
of
his
because
wrong
the
country,
ruler, after
wealth
vanity,
the
In
diplomatic
activities
of
those
scientists.
and
his
with
his
misdeeds
powerful
or
support.
before
Medici:
Lorenzo
to
mostly
even
of
he
activities
has
man
has
act
the
by
stress
successful
the
great
and
of
his
own
logic
army
artists
part,
and
leader
whom
one
If such
his
of
called
be
might
of
kind.
man-
personal egoism
his
it
as
were,
military and
because
financiallysupport
his
on
own
since
to
bloody
those
his
genius, only
no
mostly
pinnacle
the
call
kind.
man-
to
of
and
despair
country
no
politician and
resembling
of
to
only
not
is
for
secondary and,
possible
not
he
whole.
in his
roots
are
selfish, unholy
an
its
out
with-
of
benefactor
indirect
an
decided
support
preceding
it is
it is
those
This
best,
mankind
to
case,
any
at
activity
benefits
incidental.
result
or
beneficient
his
But
and
judgement,
at
sciences, he
and
arts
in certain
evidence,
as
always
although
benefit
nation,
in
not
military operations,
supports
is
always,
advantages
mankind
with
identified
power,
good
is still
relatively
suffering similar
with
ends
war
the
his
of
good
is
found
it is
war,
for
never
It
top
above.
mankind,
be
can
it into
undergoes
mankind
to
successful
and
of
man
if the
be
cannot
country
benefits
reasons,
the
of
from
actions
their
benefit
leads
nation
nation
own
benefit
him,
the
at
up
voice
feelings.
of
compulsion;
necessitywith
with
such
the
to
it is for
Even
enemy.
is
motive
the
never
egoistic
imagines,
of
result
estate
against
questionable
of
for
exception,
If he
often
ruler
the
compliance
that
practically
When
large
up
argue
show
to
is also
doing
is in
egoistic and
cases.
is
Genius
the
of
do
dictator
be
he
building
to
however,
easy,
what
that
Nature
organic
action,
as
artists
connection
the
on
calculated
conscience.
to
trary,
con-
justify
of
Think
imagination
be
considered
he
thought
the
can
equal
wise
to
The
26
had
strivingfor
been
Nature
the
of
in vain. We
Genius
call this
might
general human
urge
This
everywhere, exists
desire
will
thousands
not
will achieve
creative
The
with
of
have
as
who
are
would
such
as
ing
feel-
realistic
show
couple of
china
hundred
earth. Another
or
that
so
weapons
succeeding generations
to
the
desire
same
this is transformed
to
to
or
in
death
cheat
on
some
high
philosophical
system,
in order
of stone,
on
activity
the founder
as
is
only
not
construed
work
we
see
feelingworking
away
to
on
like Balzac
other
from
enable
him
within,
to
writes
than
the
few
rest
beautiful
of
in them
aspirations.
was
able
verses,
to
plain
ex-
toil;it is a
inspiringthem,
and
efforts. It is
of
mate
true
verses,
to
that he
prove
is another
form
of his
to
result of their
humanity. This
life in his
order
one
in unison.
act
write
two,
hypothesisin
as
continual, arduous
force; the
quasi-external
better
but survive
sire
de-
our
interests
other
also from
precious books,
him
phenomenal
firingthem
when
if
they
manner
only by
home, made
family treasure
builds
desire
the
very
that
novels.
monumental
This
them:
immortality.This
feelingnot
life and
own
instances,some
other. All
like Kant
soon,
so
of
ridiculous;they
who
builds
of his
collection
or
was
crumble
not
way
the
who
one
remember
many
the
is
down
go
this
family perpetrated,but
document
assembles
it may
with
of the
one
understand
can
our
that is shall
years
us
There
well.
as
them, and is
pronounced
They feel
by hundreds
that in this
of
among
activity.
rest
to
they realize
and
form
particular,
spiritual
creations.
not
of years,
is strong
through their
last
to
also
achieve
at
death. It is a
time
one
were
gnawing
of elation
soaring
Desire
There
is
genius more
by
proportion
to
be
never
course,
and
confidence
of the
one
is often
his achievements.
on
work.
of his convictions.
in
are
no
he
of
can,
his self-
Uncertainty
is
him
accompany
that
not
entirely
degree of
the
on
selfishness.
un-
in the future
said,might, because
depends
his
not
in life
certitude
tragediesthat often
if
underrated
compensations
He
of this. It
sure
between
that his
others, and
27
or
that he
man,
average
overlooked
which
Survival
intimate connection
an
The
of the
for
the crowd
stronglythat he is an outsider among
that happilyand carelessly
enjoys the dailypleasuresof life.When
this realization becomes
most
intense,he dreams of a future justice,
At times he realizes
when
he, although
recognized. Future
denied
was
One
him
by the
wonders
about
any
living,would
be
tribute
that
the
him
present.
absurdityof
the
looked
upon
was
have
that
been
hundred
two
into
and
great
every
what
Yet
years
that he would
comfort
desire for
in average
the average
intuition rather
One
live
to
man
than
might be
led
explanationis
not
extraordinary nature,
mentioned
Vanity
in the
is
one
on
but
one
when
every
he
the time
is hard
children,we
explainthis
to
is
nothing
same
lived,
came.
understand
to
as
the desire of
it by
understand
can
but
is human
most
of the
desire
entirelywrong.
preceding
of the
him
by reasoning.
to
hypocritical
deny it in
their biographiesthat some
mention
in his
played by
it when
nothing about
to
it. And
nothing about
know
be
would
it be
could
Today, when
artist?
fulfillment,he knows
he knew
This
in his mind.
strong
orchestra
an
the
longer among
generations would
pay
not
in
human
the great. We
were,
strikingexample,
in
This
ways.
many
chapter, and
basic
genius by saying
will
be
point
taken
later.
up
features,and it would
have
many
proofs
Voltaire
"
although
was
be
from
"
to
it is often
The
28
that
stated
the
problematic;
without
occupies
that
with
in
that
degree
feelings
the
the
in
or
little
the
the
subconscious
of
vanity
only.
famous
the
is
chemist
is
certain
role,
important
to
present
that
repeat
vanity
It
an
it
entirely
importance
play
great
I
the
there
are
minor
tions:
excep-
bordered
Nernst
is
point
imagined
individual.
an
vanity
truly
This
frailty.
be
is
of
does
of
this
decisive
actions
people
mentality
the
is
and
of
scarcely
can
What
Genius
void
are
being
weakness.
in
only
and
human
the
of
greatest
very
a
that
Nature
on
the
humorous.
While
genius
To
in
vanity
for
humans,
enjoyed
genius
we
are
is
often
denied.
would
faced
transposed
compensation
of
one
it
endurance,
summarize,
all
be
may
to
for
be
with
the
factors
the
the
false
to
general
spiritual
worldly
regard
level,
goods
it
for
desire
providing
and
of
desire
causing
the
essential.
as
immortality
a
vaguely
pleasures
the
INVENTION
We
of
motives
the
about
do
to
heard
have
be
able
those
ability
Let
man
deserves
turn
genius.
to
be
the
first
requirement,
that
makes
Invention,
have
must
between
As
What
ideas
the
in
be
hardly
be
were
wants
the
ideas
of
does
known
way
created
be
for
he
time
he
wants
to
of
they
and
art
science
novelty
our
in
if it could,
conceiving
need
for
geniuses. Maybe
that
would
be, indeed,
some
the
source
the
revolutionary
29
must
for
the
is
be
purpose.
This
that
would
is essential.
question
will
From
not
can-
if there
would
discovery
all
not
sure,
obvious,
discovery.
stantial.
sub-
and
least
at
flight
extremely
sound
be
have
conception
clear
ture
pic-
must
permits
entirelynew;
were
create,
can
instance,
To
idea?
extent
an
detailed
ideas, there
new
day
must
respect
some
if the
and
utilize
novel.
are
obtain
man
of
be
must
to
inventiveness
qualify, they
cannot
only the
invention
The
have
must
certainly
not
he
that
machine
requirement
is more,
field
do.
inventor,
means
It is
before
to
to
construct
same
physical
answered;
a
the
at
the
yet
that
one
elementary
man,
wants
An
to
possible. Yet
Wherefrom
he
what
the
general subject
see,
Vague
severe.
of
execution.
he
can
you
and
obvious
means
to
qualifications of
necessary
inventiveness.
that
the
essential
begin with
simply,
planets;
of the
it is also
idea
that
notion
to
unnecessary.
concerning
a
the
namely
top,
later
to
long discussion
an
both
contain
like
I should
call,
believed.
commonly
attention
our
of
is
than
at
is
the
is strong,
call
the
is
more
then
us
which
in
cases
able
be
to
hear
to
talk
to
opportunity
shall have
it. We
follow
to
enough
not
genius,
now
order
in
possess
obviously
in
It is time
nature.
must
man
It is
pathetic
obey
to
individuals,
the
work.
creative
discuss
inner
quasi-external and
work
of creative
mainsprings
the
requisite features
must
you
of
be
be
no
made;
that
day
The
30
know
on
genius,as
we
be
instead
new
done
Nature
it
of the Genius
today, would
exist;there
to
cease
those achievements
breed, fulfilling
few.
This
in the
sense
would
that
today
by
very
Invention,
not
than
more
the
is
interposehere
me
remarks
the
few
remarks
as
be
ly
scarce-
Creation
being
genius,the creative
act
of
puzzling matter
most
they will
"
of invention.
act
man
of
act
my
of the chief characteristics
one
the
about
"
that identifies
phenomenon
obviously
the
of the
crux
inventiveness,as
subject is
present
of genius,let
of inventiveness, rather
ours.
is
There
the solution
of
are
of the
to
does
the
that does
medium
For, curious
the
true
activities of
the
it may
as
he is
answer,
clear
value.
know
not
relatingto
matters
the
give
used
of great
puzzle.Certainly,autobiographies
value,but of limited
genius himself
be
information
much
not
This
brain. An
our
is
men
sound, the
in
not
is
tion
posi-
with
so
examination
actual
is
considerable
pours
In
of
out
Invention
There
some
genius
starts
no
in the
mind
analysiswould
in
out
with
least;certainly
notion
subject,sometimes
of successful
the
chology
psy-
knowledge has
better position.
He
does
to
the
exact
ourselves
help: by restricting
chances
at
he
is in
by
contrast
not
least,an
at
geniuses in
to
be
conscious
less.
even
mind, in
also with
scientists,
concerning
know.
the average
an
is of
in the
instances
is
an
our
little
trying to obtain
this matter,
chemistry in
genius himself
but how
treasures,
analogue. This
many
The
accumulated.
an
studies,as evidenced
our
of which
social sciences
hits upon
man
in
development of physicsand
and
been
help
nearly
all
impossibility.
When
examine
we
something,that something should be an object
handle it,turn
it over, look at it
outside of our
self,then we
can
from all sides,experiment with it.At any rate, this qualityof being
outside
examining
in
artists.
project and
vague.
Once
its
the
Invention
project has
taken
shape, it does
force
mentioned
earlier
sway.
However,
other
substantial
occupy
and
vague
In
is
in
and
it competes
way
and
with
he
those works
often
the
man
project is lurking
the unborn
mind, whether
the
and
energy,
abeyance.Yet,
surprise,that
of his
time
it
wants
to
not.
or
being carried
This phase of the phenomenon
quite often successfully.
some
out,
work
of the man's
part
in the back
somewhere
tenaciously and
projects and
without
leave
not
project remains
new
31
that
are
pictured with
Faust.
to
The
the
His
genius rests.
invaded
floatingproject becomes
of the
power
mind,
other
moments
rient,when
in
than
anything better
far does
the
state
the
true
daydreaming
this condition
of
dream
freest and
between
drama, A
cupied
oc-
inventive
Dev-
actor
and
Wegner
pictorial
presentationof this
poet,
I could
recommend
not
how
far removed
It may
tell?
can
it be from
can
actuallycontinue
Imagination
in that
The
is
in
certainly
unhampered
state.
dreaming and poetic invention is depicted in Strindberg's
Flay of Dreams, whose plot,incoherent and fanciful,
yet
since
genius of
it is bound
scientific term,
would
has been
to
be
be the dream
stage
as
lastingtrack
pictured may
that of the
carry
actual
poet.
connection
One
might
is
dreaming
the
necessarily
less,
use-
case:
an
idea
in the brain.
also be formulated
subconscious,not
great
utilized in
during
of
close
in
lost;this,however, particularly
is not
impressibility,
great
process
to
out
preparatory
might leave
concept
go,
sleep.Who
most
The
not
Imagination comes
roam.
tavern
wakefulness?
highlymeaningful,turns
dreamt
the brain is
portraitpainted by Manet.
Mallarme's
of conscious
to
with
looking for
are
easier
now
in the
intoxicated
lightly
of creation
How
Hoffmann
conversations
if you
because
is free
and
matters
dreamy
in Berlin. And
act
of creation
act
right.E.T.A.
state, is
working
by
in the
not
active when
more
as
by using a
if the
use
The
more
of the
cept
con-
The
32
Nature
of
the
Genius
correct
in the
that the
say
mind, both
subconscious
needs
high degree
mind
with
of creation
act
of
takes
scientists. This
in artists and
does
provide that
not
ably
prob-
place essentially
act
the conscious
and detachment,
tranquillity
it is
dition.
con-
necessary
in which
cases
the very
the search
When
whether
a
from
dwells
but
painting,whether
like
that bear
birth
no
creative
of
act, let
genius.We
works
might
in the minds
difference
is
return
us
inventiveness
two
fields
social world.
them.
This
He
does
plex
com-
of darkness,
out
prime requirement
the way
the
is
of
in
art.
The
Chapter 2;
accordinglydifferent
nature,
it
too.
those of the
whether
create
not
inventiveness
man
expounded
was
it shows
because
significant
is
and
of science
man
as
about
words
and inventiveness
quite significant,
The
scientist explores the laws of
physical or
pursuit.
of an
explanation of the
attempt
few
of the
the
between
plan for
human
to
say
the
product, or
is not
man
certain
regions.
tangibleresults,
to
motif, or
and concise
mind,
cumstance
lightning,unexpectedly, often under cirhand.
direct relation to the problem on
prosaic,very
Leaving this fragmentary
during
leads
musical
compact
the
when
occurs
in the subconscious
subconscious
scheme, it breaks
bolt of
in the conscious
start
even
beginning
in the
it be
elaborate
sometimes
The
not
specificscientific idea, a
and
and
yet born
idea, not
with
scientific creations,which,
speaking,no
strictly
creations. When
inventing a
an
way
to
discover
in
of
law
inventing
use
I said
just now,
the word
slightlydifferent
we
as
nature.
sense:
It means,
are,
in
invention
it
means,
inventing
the proper
mathematical
ap-
The
34
in
for these
do
The
like Edison.
man
exist in
not
Nature
and
nature
is
sine qua
Genius
the devices
of inventiveness
It
help for inspiration.
divisions of
three main
is
occupied with
they are
of what
is known
to
interesting
tion
inspira-
as
who
her
invoked
in this respect
compare
of
the concept
is pictured by
significance
the Muse
is imperative
are
in the form
Its
non.
the
highestdegree
because
men
In
of
the
art.
paintersand sculptorsinvention
others. Their subjectslie open
to view
a suitable landscape or
to choose
person
of
for
earlier
holds chiefly
periods art;
For
is less
for
imperativethan
for
task is
anybody; their
This remark
painting.
as we
proceed to later ones,
The
Dutch
the less valid does it become.
painters,for
genre
instance,instilled atmosphere into their interiors,
requiringa great
than
The
French
deal of inventiveness.
impressionists
give more
cluded,
feelingsand thoughts are inlandscapes or still lives,their own
again implying a good deal of invention. This tendency
becomes
Comparing Titian's
most
pronounced in the moderns.
similar
and the Lute
Venus
Flayer with Picasso's Aubade, two
of one's probable likingfor the
subjects,one can say, irrespective
indifference to the other, that the latter required
first and conceivable
Landing,
satire is
or
the
or
one
than
invention
mental
more
Road
of modern
replacesbeauty often
humor)
of novels
in literature is
and
do
poems
art
as
China.
which
are, of course,
and
draw
poet
can
sluggish.
History is
under
stances
circum-
of famous
lie
as
plainlyaround
29
outside
subjectwhen his
frequent substitute.
his
a
warriors
and
heroes
who
which
from
sources
own
Another
generations.
previous literature. This is no
outside
source
woods
as
invention
Ironic
as
during
wit
Inventive
on
stringentrequirement. Subjects
more
not
flowers. There
value
found
to
striking
more
the Miraculous
Invention
the first.Even
Toadspaivn
assets
drawings, such
in Klee's
from
of the
for
it
and
writer
becomes
sounds, the
their lifetime
their
and
people
poets
is the whole
all of
plagiarism.
Practically
of
lore of
Shake-
Invention
work.
all
execution.
of
work
the
of
More
genius.
The
value
and
the
who
of
borders
of
and
whose
are
on
awed
lipid
by
molecules,
only
literary
with
dealing
V,
by
is
the
limitless
of
out
not
corresponding
in
Listening
human
brain,
demonstrably
ability
in
other
had
Schumann,
or
the
summit
very
of
aggregate
enjoying
then-
at
requiring
essence,
different
lies
life
Chopin
an
ness.
inventive-
nevertheless,
melodies,
of
are
with
compared
its
to
all
human
of
creation
wealth
of
who,
wealth
limited
composers
crown
if
problematic,
has
previous
the
musician.
the
is
composer
greatest
whole
music
in
notably
the
is
source
of
is
mystery,
inspiration.
flown
beauty,
the
transcriptions
spirit
musicians
the
and
for
for
the
in
executed
art
incomprehensible
we
imitate
Creation
disposal.
life
human
for
Part
lence
excel-
by
of
scope
in
outside
works
previous
history
nature,
for
source
found
inspiration
an
invention
truly
of
works
be
significant
no
as
who
Thus
It
has
of
use
epigoni.
entire
unlimited
will
matter
nature
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range.
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the
is
ary
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compensated
amply
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source
genius.
artist
The
is
practically
their
have
invention
Finally,
riches,
its
comedies
of
lack
of
in
and
tragedies
speare's
35
from
other
it.
protein
men's
MASTERY
We
of
talked
without
of the
mastery
is it
What
in words
It is
and
there
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books
and
the
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is
to
teach
books
on
music
good
of
'forced
would
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that
This
taught.
Even
scientists,'they
bring
to
be
light
stayed undeveloped.
to
what
we
36
make
in
that
know
by
an
of
the
concepts;
craft
advocates
educational
otherwise
or
fashion, but,
the
the
can
Faraday
of
this
of
mastery
by
people
young
confusion
for
so
scientists
produce
to
such
and
if, and
value
it is less
arts,
done, that
geniuses
dormant
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the
produced
that
actually
talent.
if this is admitted
maintain
of
be
natural
the
similar
are
manipulations,
can
from
stems
of
master
good. They
are
certain
be
Art
such
There
art,
nothing.
to
The
Vinci,
so.
mathematics
can
put
studies
one
close
not
many
for
can
If
by
nowadays
notion
teachers
or
is
necessary
physics and
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drawing,
on
written
information
it
be
da
This
and
tendency
believe
simply
the
be
can
or
will
execute
the
that
that
composition.
book
art.
to
talking of
written
are
study
fairly obvious
is
engineers
be
how
seems
Some
that
arts,
when
something
Is it
Leonardo
by
other
has
of them.
course,
the
technique,
multiplication, of photography
talent
no
the
the
craft
manuals
have
to
book
on
of
musical
on
person
taught sufficient
Gauss
is
tion,
inven-
with
go
manual?
sure,
think
and
There
education.
be
this
sciences.
be
from
derives
reader
To
denied
be
as
happens
instructions
cannot
down
should
ought
it
typewriter?
classical
One
must
nothing,
the
of
technique
textbooks
Painting.
give
using
that.
are
avails
mastery
the
as
written
like
not
by
same
of
and
that
faculty
invention
mean
we
that
or
The
craft.
Is it the
artist?
invention.
which
CRAFT
OF
of
system
might
life of
not
can-
have
geniuses,
Mastery of Craft
real
cannot
one
unfavorable
most
if
Even
craft
to
would
conditions
of
men
young
not
could
system
with
go
home
of
through under
schooling.
and
be
more
it. Yet
the
break
undeveloped; they
stay
37
is
enough
not
to
make
professionalmusicians
are
of
finds
multiple characteristics
Our
principle
important applicationin
an
not
more.
this connection.
interestingdifference
An
There
are
their
spend considerable
who
acquire it without
craft,others
remarkable
the instances
are
early
but
original,
at
who
some
an
in which
this
Sometimes
age.
it is still amazing
how
and
learning
effort
at
all. Most
work
is
produced
excellent
work
effort
and
any
early
to
as
time
is
particularly
not
cate
the intri-
wherefrom
man's
the young
mediately
them imof existingmasterpiecesshows
and
complicated technique
be
school
rule
ever
here evident.
geniuses becomes
among
used
the
summation
having learned
and
insight.The
its fragments
from
teacher
Mime
as
comes
manner
small
boy
at
series without
of the arithmetical
tion
of intuiway
his father's
Siegfriedmolded
without
of the
unaware
was
into
come
employed. Gauss
it. Technique
direct
sword
had
them
to
by
method, is rendered
his
masterfully
by Wagner.
Other
effort. Bach
studied
his
establishing
and
learn
masters
many
technique.Beethoven
own
composition constantly.Balzac
his
it
to
be
While
printed,as
Heine
Platen
on
laboriously
his
of the
two
output
before
and
whose
extreme
caused
ease,
output
was
was
him
and
having
sent
littletrouble.
no
he mentions,
small
proved
large im-
very
after
even
of
manner
without
not
who
worked
spiritual
offspring.
mockery
types:
whose
wrote
derision, von
Heine's
times
writings many
his
changed
was
the
not
One
entirelyjustified.
early and
easy
or
might
ask which
hard
worker
The
38
is the greater
of
offers
and
found
be
this is true,
We
certain
established
of the
we
two
types
technique;
and
the hard
creation,anticipating
to
of
discussed
will be
acquiredby
their
on
the easy
men:
the
Cezanne.
and
the finished
at
the work
of
be
their type.
relation with
hard
in
of the men;
to
an
types
is present
two
it has
one,
that both
appear
direct
no
easilyto
also look
can
extent
program,
is in
of the
We
worker.
then
greatest labored
for instance, of Rembrandt
have
truth in this,
is some
of the
the great. Which
the personal temperament
on
among
Some
associate
mystery,
facts. It will
to
empiricalgatheringof
can
is inclined
more
Yet
about.
talked
Genius
easy
the
On
master?
real
Nature
our
the end
toward
the work
glimpse upon
is concerned.
Haydn's compositions are pearls in this respect,
crude
works
chiseled to the finest detail;Beethoven's
are
more
of rock, so-to-speak.Or in painting,
hewn
and monumental,
out
then
cast
is excellent
Vermeer
the
impression of
details. Or
the
impetuous
between
far
as
only has
genius not
fact,what
established
by
Some
thoughts and
beauty
new
marvel
purpose
is
often
in
mind,
the
away
see,
worker
to
the
master
cultivators?
particularwealth.
at
to contemplate
delightful
most
his idea
by
use
in
is
there
the
on
no
one
and
less for
cares
unique correlation
hand, and the lesser
other.
the
its
aims
can
hard
It is
in
on
perfectionist
greater
it.In
an
is carried
who
technique. As
interest
technique forms
whom
and
of
kinds
two
the main
it with
presents
his followers.
leavingdetails to
as
in mathematical
he
sketchy, intuitive;
these
Cezanne
disregarding perfectionof
often
whole,
perfection,while
of
details,while
in technical
craft,he
not
Not
very
often
wealth
the accumulated
all contribute
their inventiveness
to
motes
pro-
to
express
this
new
is
Mastery of Craft
the
to
with
case
express
philosophers:
they
most
of
system
thinking.A writer, on
thoughts
the other
39
standard
use
which
logicalforms
they evolved
of
in years
kind
of
Mann
and Joyce promoted the technique
writing.Proust, Thomas
of novel writing by a considerable
step beyond the stage
the contemplaused, for instance, by Dickens. They introduced
tive
and
introspectivetechnique
descriptivemethod.
They added
craft,enrichingit by this means.
In science
and
that
knows
how
grown
too
literally
master.
It will present
field
to
the various
with
cope
the
not
of
introduces
genius
lesser
place I
to
illustrate the
in
to
his purpose.
technique, it
new
invention
not
inate
orig-
may
make
is
full
use
we
in the
field of science. At
from
matter
originality
the
this
standpoint of craft,
reproduced
Up to the time of Bach musical compositions were
had the
acousticallypure intervals,quarts, quints,etc., which
disadvantage that
key
one
Italian
be
clavichord
the others
divided
is
or
more
octave
noticeable
even
the clavichord
the so-called
the
acoustically
pure,
disturbing or
having
form
an
or
organ
equal
tuned
temperament,
organ,
less discordant.
or
Werckmeister,
difficulty,
attempts,
of which
none
on
pure,
was
this
overcome
to
field
overwhelming
will promote
did
has
This
develop its potentialities.
to
one
which
genius entering
the
lightwho
scarcely
narrow
future
it. The
invented
greater
in
craft, a
new
of science
among
portionsthat
existing
methodology
methodologicalmaterial
a
In
even
anyone
the
to
and
branches
instrumental
fast for
narrative
technique
decades.
intuitivelyselect from
to
When
last few
to
newcomer
that
the
of
technologythis enrichingof
lieu
in
into
but
not
following some
twelve
these
music
earlier
enough
listener.
average
new
to
equal intervals,
disharmonious
by the
to
In order
By
which
intervals,
could
be
in any
feasible previously.It was
not
key which was
in his Well-tempered Clavichord
who
showed
the way
composed
then
Bach
in which
The
40
music
to
was
be
It
are
we
requires a genius
used
so
realize this
Another
by Cristofori,
yet
his sonatas
fully
hammer
lead
to.
have
to
would
be
different
This
new
exhausted
Today
has
its
of
music
the old
as
it
by
going
mirror
to
of the
lines
along those
be effected
masters
might develop. It
more
possibilities;
any
is
today
not
to
give way
to
craft in musical
new
to pointto electronic
technique.Indications seem
plementing
instruments, partlyreplacingexistingones, partlycomnew
There
them.
such
been
have
generators
great
music
will
not
lend
told
achieved
perfected.Various
Stockhausen, do
ever
be
cannot
its means,
by
its precursors.
direction
in what
see
tendency.
tendency might
expression,a
musical
with
the music
where
At
repetition.
mere
be achieved
in
effects,
the
and
potentialities
modern
appreciates
one
times, it is difficult to
appears
its
those obtainable
wonders
if
Even
of it until Beethoven
made
was
when
also artistic justification
but
sometimes
One
introduced
certain
only historical
are
played.
for
unsatisfactory
thin and
that could
artistic,
but
entirelydifferent from
there is
use
to
easy
sounds
demonstrated
only technical
not
was
action,the pianoforte,
much
not
that it is
Today
music
instruments
of which
tone
craft.
novel
temperament
composers
for
music
it
cally.
imagination,also artisti-
fully utilize
equal
example. Piano
clavichord,the
not
of his
means
to
showed
twenty-four keys; he
particularproblem of
their
wrote
this
to
of the Genius
in all
composed
but, by
only technically
not
Nature
by
too
themselves
harp. Whether
the composition of
to
seems
modern
composers,
encouraging; they
compositions of
possibility
instruments
such
as
to
seem
K.
be
value.
be
electronic
It appears
to
when
day
attempts
of the aeolian
today; there
some
appear
new
instruments
genius
be done
must
be
by using
equal temperament,
or
42
The
of
work
his time
more
Another
school
Genius
studied
and
tempo
maintains
life,his
Bach's
the
gave
much
matter
quiet,unemotional
less uniform
or
the
of
thoroughly,and
very
thought,recommends
in
Nature
intensity.
that the
instructions
are
ficient
suf-
never
when
even
give a clear picture of the intentions,
seemingly enough of them, as in the nineteenth century
there
to
are
entirelypermissiblefor
It is then
conductor
to
limits,of
natural
of
school
point.We
act.
side with
to
with
agree
Where,
the
performer
within
presentation
"
According
course.
creative
inclined
am
of
manner
to
the
most
to
the
to
the
vary
the
the second
or
certain
of this
extreme
sponds
performer corre-
truth
is the
now,
positions.
com-
opinion
"
up
in this
to
the
of presentation,
flexibility
troversy?
con-
certain
different
major Etude;
Mephisto
that
are
Yet
"
individual
should
call
these
Griindgens
or
the
as
gained impressions
that there is
shows
interpretation
by
one
artists,however
Ghosts,
easilyforgotten.This
not
for
room
Ibsen's
in
Moissi
saw
performing
plenty of
artist.
activities of the
interpretational
outstanding, acts
of
That
creation?
cannot
be.
the
of the
the creation
genius Beethoven.
Or
think
of several
opera
whoever
doubt, but
genius, and
always the
same
exciting,
expressive
the
Originalityof
it is
the
this is
creation
is
one
largelymissing in
of
the
the
chief
criterions of
since
performing artist,
Mastery
he
the
Both
craft.
the
but
he
of
Sarah
also
of
art.
created
Bernhardt,
and
gesturing
The
kinds
two
he
performer
of
his
craft
consisting
all
her
achievements
form
own,
of
and
unique
served
are
not
was
of
patterns
truly
previous
style.
mirror
comparable.
the
of
different.
recitation,
as
audience.
an
mastery
possess
VAiglon
dramatic
to
essentially
are
his
in
own
43
must
existing
use
Craft
understandable
creation
employed
did
only
not
the
two
Rostand
technique
original
and
creator
But
one:
the
makes
only
of
The
creative
dramatists,
The
artistry
facial
for
sions
expres-
the
work
UNIVERSALITY
There
is
call it the
might
the
first
place
subjects, so
of
that
His
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knowledge,
in
be
This
actual
knowledge
mentioned
There
is
truly impressive.
deal
is
which
How
we
in
means
variety of
take
us
medicine
he
others.
probably
the
familiar, yet
know
can
man
Bernard
case,
literature, music,
and
not
was
it is
"
if
covering
single
one
comprehension
beyond
Let
immense,
fields with
be
must
point;
course,
wide
cover,
approach.
was
this
at
genius. Universality
it should
is, of
instances
MIND
familiaritywith
fact, that
endeavor.
ideal
Shaw.
that
universalityof
wide,
human
the
feature
OF
such
just what
great
find
we
list
the
in
genius.
In
mind
the
Shaw's
by
no
wide
wide
a
to
him.
of
concrete
music.
He
in
his
may
mood
fact,
in
wide
his
such
does
was
with
the
if it is
it is
This
always
is
poser.
com-
his
in
composer
widened
case;
writings;
instance,
reflected
it stand
be
his
in
knowledge.
for
Take,
and
special
not
have
the
the
is universal
one
music;
of
man
universality
be
to
easier
applied
think
to
of
human
universal
and
penetration
and
enough.
as
sentimentality
in
capricious
temperament
We
talk
don't
44
here
mirrored
knowledge
of
the
in his
in his
he
One
his
was
finds
waltzes, festive
nocturnes,
the
was
in
goes,
emotions.
in
of
his
Universality
not.
emotions
been
polonaises, melancholy
ballads,
was
that
conclude
cannot
likely it
very
gamut
in his mazurkas
in
in
of
directly
must
traced
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his work
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understanding
merriment
vein
again
mind;
means
case
take
Chopin.
universal
so
us
be
matters.
Take
a
concept
scope
others.
then,
The
musician?
Let
such
How,
knowledge.
of
is
knowledge
tell whether
cannot
we
with
obvious
so
means
can
scherzos.
his artistic
mystic
This
abilityto
Universalityof
mood
It is in the
the width
same
of the
in all
of
45
of his
versatility
as masterfullyas he
is used
mind
to
geniusesor
be
must
if
is
painter.It
that
some
are
are
not
quite as
are
great
famous
include
we
is
nature
teristic
features charac-
the various
Among
not.
this universal
whether
essential
who
men
scientists. Some
as
do
of the
not
The
bailiwick
if
so
from
did.
perception,the width
of
for
own
genius there
picturethem
to
personality,the width
questioncomes
present
of the
sense
him
enabled
rather
Mind
strike
ant
objectiveobserver as odd, and a less toleras
one
exasperating.It is probable that there are also scientific
medes
know
of Archigeniuses who suffer from this shortcoming. We
may
that he
an
indignant when
was
matters
Johann
nor
the mood
pay
with
military.This
artists of
found
be
may
to
soldier
also among
Strauss seem
to
reveal
dared
approach his
to
of
absence
universal
mind
genius.Neither Grieg
in
exceptionaluniversality
lesser
an
of their music.
The
is also
reverse
true.
make
not
meet
genius.We
people in everyday life who exhibit a remarkable
of mind. They know
degree of versatility
quite a bit about everything,
those
of
and I'm not
who
thinking
merely pretend but of
those who
has
only
significance
discussed
wide
when
mind
and
understanding.Universality
it is coupled with the essential features
earlier.
There
when
reallyhave
are
those curious
in doubt
are
we
wrongdoer
on
tyrants of fame.
whether
grand
Plato
borderline
the
scale, like
considered
cases,
man
previouslymentioned,
was
certain
genius
plainlyas
are
lean
matter
as
of
great
man.
As
was
personalview, depending
on
today who
the
only
rulers, warriors
these latter
many
or
the
idolize
more
or
and
worst
Napoless
judge'sadmiration
for
The
46
of
abhorrence
or
devoted
time
some
his
literature;
at
around
in
man
of the Genius
gloire.The
and
war
Nature
be
questionmay
to
universalitymight
trait of
a
great
sciences,even
interest,however, centered
main
Napoleon
man.
nearly exclusively
military operations.
in
important creative work
that his universal knowledge
several fields? It is conceivable
one
or
it is also
only helps him to exploitone particularkind of activity;
works
of a varied kind. I have
possiblethat he actually creates
the
Does
of those who
talked
those
had
too
genius carry
who
men
belong
in several
great
mind, but
Let
us
not
There
they certainlybelong
to
to
turn
now
fields,who
multiple creators.
were
many
most
to
actuallywere
universal
his
on
only
not
are
the
highest
class.
of
One
is Goethe
best known
the
who
was
boot. Another
and
philosopher,
fields.With
this is
are
only in
so,
our
medical
active in
minor
Sometimes
two
and
Mann
music
few.
than
more
active
da
was
critic,Borodin
Sometimes
not
field that is
hard
so
they do
artist and
an
novelist and
people among
and
creatively,
are
to
exactly in several,but
not
how
an
at
and
prehend.
com-
least
mechanical
Shaw
essayist,
chemist
if
of
It is this combination
way.
one
Vinci
understand
there
field,but
one
cannot
we
repeat:
to
unimportant
fields. Leonardo
and
minds,
than
genius is
engineer,Thomas
mention
I wish
more
activityin
significant
in
human
average
Again,
possible.
who
us
is
fair
draughtsman
Albeit
Schweitzer:
theologian,musician,
missionary,creativelyactive in all these
and
playwright,philosopher,scientist,
statesman,
to
novelist,poet,
wright
play-
composer,
to
simultaneously,
another.
There
Sometimes
is,indeed,
even
the
rather human
greatest
are
element
in this
in their innermost
matter.
heart
in
Universality
doubt
that
certain
realized
in
out
for
himself,
his
virtually
is
famous
There
is
genius'
its
is
have
liked
The
time.
the
a
it
if
his
had
human
darkness
little
by
closer
to
found
earthbound
by
his
bright
surrounding
hearts.
his
of
the
sun,
genius,
plays
of
theory
colors
would
Leonardo
by
ray
'second
Vanity
his
contraptions,
acceptance
a
others.
that
that
Some
economists
among
world.
scientists.
better
switch
rise.
or
the
sibly
pos-
infection.
to
insists
man
mechanical
like
begin
Ostwald,
disappointed
ingenious
mystery
our
great
contemporary
element,
and
and
appreciated
rather
was
accepted
Haeckel
it, and
talent
philosophers
turned
when
humor
sufficiently
not
machines,
war
of
bit
chemists
Mach,
years:
first
their
concerning
second
later
cessation
cholera
to
repeat
his
the
of
complained
talent
only
take
himself
activity
toward
not
can
necessary
output
have
who
Invention
would
he
his
openly
those
the
that
could
exposing
by
and
Goethe
part.
not
was
he
well;
that
later
felt
he
somewhat
another
of
start
secret
sufficiently
not
well.
the
have
all
composing;
suicide
doubts
Not
when
is
motive,
the
and
Tchaikovsky
very
of
up
age,
case.
Bach,
physicists
their
in
such
understandable
when
certain
small.
very
inspiration
over
drying
stopped
committed
It
at
field.
was
years
actual
an
This
success.
Another
world.
field
another
try
freely
talk
entirely
not
are
to
better
with
not
the
They
inclined
are
would
47
creation.
greatness
of
in
second
of
be
welcome
most
and
rest
genius
survive,
they
the
might
related,
run
which
by
their
achieve
might
of
motive
of
value
will
it
they
where
is
the
about
Mind
of
various
of
princes
shines
and
his
through
brings
him
DEPTH
The
universalityof
rightly
all
of
sorts
There
is
mind
genius's
it is the
Universality"
so.
PERCEPTION
OF
shores.
But
depth,
characteristic
the
width
is
ocean
and
emphasized,
the
of
It reaches
ocean.
it is also
only wide,
not
of
been
has
genius, which
requires
deep.
few
remarks.
When
wish
we
which
say
to
stress
he
look
of
found
in other
in
thinking
consultation,
is
comparable
while
This
the
On
oddly
a
shaped
tree.
maidservant
Most
will
thought. Only
few
will
stop
listen
to
call
depth of perception,
In
genius, it may
It is the
reaction
genius this
senses
the
motives,
the
hidden
or
reaction
unusual,
for
causes
element.
without
by
go
be
in
the
sing
giving these
and
watch
the
strange
feature
not
let
see
an
they hear
strange
melody.
impressions much
man,
observe
It is this attitude
relatively few
in
us
work.
with
park they
running
song.
present
sarily.
neces-
now
foreign country
window
open
In
This
composer
occupied
not
not
engineer
hard.
all. But
to
is often
an
although
running.
man
that
thinking of
common
travel
an
twisted
tree
be
we
all think
strenuous,
as
said, it is
conference,
the
to
be
also
During
the
degree
who
because
they
"
relaxation, when
in
through
people
in
intensity
creatures
with
court
at
they notice
street
fellow
man
This
him.
superficially.As
depth may
people while
at
his
business
may
of
kind
around
intensity with
the
perception,
concerned
certain
which
work
at
look
to
them
attorney
an
of
from
are
people.
mean
everything
around
we
not
depth
markedly
things
depth
is
hears
him
at
do
we
here,
and
sees
differentiates
rule
depth,
we
we
people.
vital.
of
the
man
is strong,
the
and
He
to
his
an
interest
unexpected.
circumstances
will
connect
48
impression that
He
not
is
will
seen
it with
In
matters.
fully awakened,
search
on
other
the
for
he
possible
surface, for
similar
impres-
Nature
The
50
Variety shows
Toulouse-Lautrec,
dancers,
not
in
Genius
for
entertainment
nothing but
are
mortals.
lithographsof
memorable
such
figuresas
studies
His
Guilbert
Yvette
to
the
and
La
led
la Galette
de
Moulin
the
and
Rouge
common
singers and
the
studied
contrast,
Moulin
in the
the
of
Goulue.
In earlier
sight of
been
knocking
person
incident;he
an
tale he
youth, a
Plain
experience
sex
giving
without
it
is
Golden
attention
it
thought.
have
must
imagination
daydreaming
in his
out
of
Pot.
everybody
matter
much
too
spun
vegetablebasket
adventures
in The
down
wrote
over
Hoffmann's
E.T.A.
in
markets
were
the
as
hurrying
some
probably common.
caught by such
was
there
times, when
It is
takes for
granted
are
studied
quite so nonchalant about it. D. H. Lawrence
from
all possible angles: physiological,
the act
pathological,
the minutest
down
ences
detail,including the experito
psychological,
geniusesnot
of both
and female. He
male
in his
event
the
was
genius. This
matter,
sex
this achievement,
to
cornerstone
genius,will
of
in works
"beautiful"
descriptions
our
even
without
exclamations
be
explained,it
must
is manifold.
been
chief
Thoreau's
contact
of those
For
v.
and
Humboldt's
Central
countries
taken
variety is
nature
up
in
of the
one
superficially;
"breathtaking" remain
this
depth
of
The
inspiration.
is the
Nature
nature.
or
be
feat of
true
ly
mere-
poets
of
source
enjoy
us
classical work
with
Alexander
of South
of
genius. Most
characteristics of
outcome
creative
to
observing nature
same
of his
holds
deep
ment
achievehas
ever
for writers:
and
intimate
America
is
an
in his
deep observation
Depth of Perception
51
people.The
benefits? Distraction
why
reason
the
company,
is
society;for them
the
for company
have
of
the
not
stupidest
nonsensical small talk,the hollowest gossip is
most
brushwood
That
and connections.
that
be able
reach
to
such
the dense
to
penetrate
soul of people.From
the very
this
not
"
scientist. Darwin
not
essential
could
ones
"
have
never
is characteristic of
great
if
he
had
theory
his
evolved
seen
lying open
There
on
the surface.
is still another
aspect. Let
us
assume
scientist follows
of
particulartrail. Now, those trails have a deceptive way
into trivial directions;
the opening to the real
leading the man
up
secret
is so
gotten
scientist would
a
never
path
needs
of that before?"
genialmind
example will
An
to
heard
question:"How
seems
so
simple
It
penetrate
the
on
the surface
of the acoustical
is
times
some-
are
is it that
nobody
evident,yet it
and
opening.
narrow
be of interest. We
which
thought
it.Once
see
know
the
of the water,
waves
and
fast vessels
the reader
may
produced by airplanesmoving
with supersonicspeed. There
exists an exact
opticalanalog,produced
fast
is
called
which
Vavilovmoving
elementary
particles,
by
Cerenkov
discovered
a
fter
the
who
radiation,
men
it,as mentioned
in Chapter 2. The
phenomenon was
actuallyobserved by other
others the Curie couple; they all misinterpreted
scientists,
among
it
as
waves
simple luminescence,
fundamental
nature
was
until
discovered
some
years
later its
true
and
10
MEMORY
few
order.
standard
The
It
of
the
that
it is often
and
in
craft
require
analogy plays
draw
can
will
at
of
productive
science, is often
talking
refers
about
heaps
to
level, like
How
him
"
Goethe
smallest
detail
details but
for
not
train, and
in
the
of
of
is
It
life,
and
the
genius
rather
phrase,
in
with
universality
and
literature
were
we
interest, whereas
and
data.
memory
universality on
lower
is
and
formulas
an
excellent
indispensable for
calculation
they
he
tool
creative
on
Other
do
not
which
of
quote
we
is
in their
pencil
that
came
handbooks
need
mind.
only useful
the
some
and
problem
scientists
not
down
paper
only
well
so
take
the
in
his kind
noted
had
any
carry
activity.
52
because
remembered
could
Fermi
conversation.
volubly
afraid
am
many
authors.
autobiographical novel
sixty, he
that
"
too
his
write
to
over
jot down
of
been
not
rather
and
Goethe
great
reading
on
ease
memory.
able
his
see
with
have
was
can
one
all. It is said
course
figures
memory
his
was
he
when
up
is,
often, there
because
mood
in
if confronted
find
and
works,
invention
just
genius, particularly
mind,
talked
of
store
vast
world
in
it
and
wrote
quite
would
this.
work
in the
which
from
not
like
nature,
both
words,
encyclopedia.The
heaps
and
important
the
nature.
in
to
easy
goes
role
found
is
not
invention
information
anybody
it is
argument
material
copiously. This
of
since
how
other
as
one
belongs
memory
general filingcabinet.
Emerson
of
is
of
walking
good
in
are
memory,
important
an
out
by
In
store
and
rigid requirement,
task
pointed
works.
large
that
together. The
go
was
art
genius,
great.
supplemented
previous
fact
of
controversial,
should
two
feature
the
to
is somewhat
scientists;also, it
how
point
mentioned
was
another
outfit of the
matter
why
see
about
Observations
the
to
words
but
You
see,
actually
53
Memory
let
Or
that
look
us
the
at
of memory
think
bestowed
by
of
mark
not
as
only
nature
is
genius. It
according
questionablewhether
be
The
idea
which
wood,
interest,with
mild
think
among
indifferently
or,
tales associated
with
If, then, he
sees
would
child.
not
Memory, according
leads
the
to
nature
to
be looked
depth of perception may
Plato
in outstanding minds.
memory
in
poignant
good
memory
what
doesn't
attempt
to
stresses
learn. Need
like
as
person
the
with
all other
it is with
learning, and
or
upon
manner:
mind
that forest
saw
of
so
good
the
cause
the
importance of
who
does
retain
not
of
us
when
wince
read that?
we
Some
believe
that memory
must
be
born
cases
poor
It is the
with
improved somewhat
be
other
forget it. An-
ever
imprint.So
of six,
the age
at
to
relation
in
that he
remember
even
forest,which
forests,and
dark
most,
at
as
will
with
and
experienced in
he
impressions.He
and
at
his very
feature
distinguishing
depth of attention he
is the
else looks
someone
rate,
any
remember
not
as
along
go
position.At
does
should
one
supreme
of
superlativegift
Everything
is unthinkable.
earliest childhood
life must
to
genius who
this belief,a
to
as
privilegedindividuals
certain
upon
with
tool, but
useful
preferto
Some
work.
for creative
is valuable
good memory
just said
angle. We
another
from
matter
them.
by
can
be
same
as
Of
proper
acquired by training.I
other
with
course,
an
better look
genius:
memory
average
traits of
for artificialmeans
average
as
can
person
can
most
with
substitute,such
The
54
notebooks
as
which
and
becomes
Hence,
rather
form
lost, which
his past
largely conditioned
experienced.
sometimes, if
grades. The
brain
integralpart of the
it,he would
of
stones
live in the
retain
abilityto
be
would
spiritual
one's
the mind
of
genius
everything he
extraordinarymemory
an
well. At
as
mental
express
has
age.
an
maturityof
ability
an
or
for the
not
develop
to
with
gift forms
more
his
by
it sounds,
as
better
genius. Without
complexity and
Curious
Genius
are
The
world.
innate
an
of
than
worse
as
only with
present
the
of
memory
picture we
Nature
be
can
is
has
cap
handi-
capacity in chemical
today
terms,
we
describe
can
it
something
by different
hinder
the
fewer
relatively
might, by
with
person
sheer
of
type
one
of
limitation
"new"
underlie creation.
People
with
vice
wide
wide
will
one
made
are
nor
information
scientist
is
deep study
not
conducive
of the matter,
done
he look
touches
on
good
part
to
lead
him
in the
on
light of
two
much
too
good
his intuition
the
the
these
into
is this: without
of the work
originality.
point:
our
originalwork.
to
an
coveries
college years. Original diswhose
knowledge is neither
follows
one
is often
particularlyoriginal,
classed
illustrates
problem
new
This
settled.
his
novices
by
not
actuallybe
recall from
often
often
are
can
too
attack
to
knowledge
Professors
versa.
as
groups,
does
possess
produce the
inverse
tain
cer-
might
having too
room,
too
structure
Among
and
to
room
brain
performed
are
for
compete
of
functions
two
might
two
development
storingelements
many
and
the
structures,
Excessive
extent.
the
Although
new.
going
and
for
way
into
carries
on
and
having
subjectand
what
has
obtained
results,
the
finishing
put
been
achieved
by
55
Memory
others.
to
factor
with
the
all I
aspect;
much
blind
the
look
forget
the
had
after
his
Memory
from
find
those
them
mostly
is
Their
achievements
the
as
their
fact
makes
us
important
Do
not
desirable
that
of
and
shows,
be
not
absence
of
genius
people
features
trait
of
man.
if
think
petty
as
to
half
are
of
highly
of
of
itself
repute
We
remember
audience.
acrobats.
trait
coupled
in
could
just that.
they
example
not
to
as
worthy
note-
genius
the
in
cance
insignifi-
with
others.
these
artistes
really be
could
genius.
All
you.
creative
good
is
muscular
other
any
bad
intelligent
are
went
piety.
ability
an
he
only
some
minimized;
of
are
their
could
he
elle
in
he
ability
otherwise
pour
others
as
as
remarkable
received
even
bother
never
Verlaine,
seeped
and
excessively
an
qualification
just
whether
confuse
has
baffle
trait
let this
the
saturated,
computation,
ones;
is
only
artistes
the
feature
previous
memory,
among
with
Even
would
And
life, had
genius
simple-minded
wonder
for
which
to
complete
he
that
Chansons
should
particular
without
needed
his
whose
Memory
owners.
of
The
of
geniuses
say
the
in
of
calculated
acrobats
are
of
variety
on
plished
accom-
up
memory.
become
needed.
Bonheur
feature
good
that
into
go
cluttered
not
true
all-important
an
is often
might
overamorous
"geniuses"
sequences
They
when
on
ascetic
as
to
he
stages
his
written
been
used
gone
work
be
must
young.
have
books
original
is
it
will
we
too
is old,
formulas
various
what
have
year
in
up
is
chapter
mind
by
he
and
all the
them
through
not
when
Einstein
remembering
whose
fixed
new
memory.
is that
genius
lights,"
genius. Age
later
here
say
finally, there
good
in
"lesser
the
to
"
young
genius,
toward
And
to
for
goes
regard
information
of
mind
in
genius
want
the
by
too
also
degree
some
this
all
Although
in
all, good
memory
is
highly
11
PERSEVERANCE
It is often
great
shown
by
if
be
can
that
no
are
statement
did
not
shows
overlappings
The
upon.
quite
bit
be
might
we
superficial;
we
involved.
qualificationof
implied by
was
character
be
can
often
so
that
the
trait
compulsory
Every
is
thing
any-
have
And
add.
to
more
for
blamed
have
we
perseverance,
ever,
How-
omission
using
or,
patience.
the
Actually,
is
factors
more
by which
means
statement
yet. There
mention
simpler word,
The
many
finished
the
achieved.
there
means
we
that
stated
to
topic might
creative
avoided
hardly
have
we
of
the
discourses
ingly
seem-
various
this
of
nature.
to
looked
yet
same,
the
on
activity.Indeed,
in
back
come
be
comments
our
from
upon
ferent
dif-
angle.
Similarly here.
works
lends
him,
is
demoniacal
It is
as
It is
soil
from
genius
to
evening
Patience
lawn.
that
of
it is
the
certainly
and
is rather
does
need
virtue
an
oxen.
association
tillinghis
genius,
no
the
simply
farmer
severance
per-
trace
bees, horses
patience.
is
contrast,
invokes
genius
but
nor
as
such
sign of genius.
there
Yet
a
till
early morning
his
feature
not
human,
and
ants
degree than
lesser
gardener weeding
or
find
scarcely possible to
with
not
exemplified by
is
than
wider
even
In
aspect.
feature; there
human
it. It is
about
demoniacal
said, a
we
which
under
quasi-external constraint
very
feature.
animal
exists
psychologistto
impatient
one
man,
connection.
sense
that
who
has
There
One
creative
types
The
length of
particular work
length
of
of work
work
scholar
requires patience.
cannot
An
well
Also, certain
The
are
few.
respect.
be
perserverance,
something
work
to
no
create
great.
not
require
is of
less
some
patience than
importance
56
very
not
others.
in
this
related
The
58
Scientists need
work
of
work
complete. Not
chain
of many
links,and
suppliesonly links;there
the
small
branch
scientific
paintingsdo
no
particular
is reached, a genius
deadend
his regret
not
live
to
to
in the
seen
work
the
opens
vistas
new
up
workers.
of science
of
turn
Thus,
coming
The
lifework
of Einstein
expressed
in theoretical
new
who
in the mind
was
have
must
could
physics,
had
tum
quan-
of science
endlessness
same
miniature
or
century
our
he
off. Prophetically,
in his mind.
mechanics
the
at
see
seemingly rounded
then
lyric poems
to
endlessness
who
Boltzmann
Ludwig
are
genius.Science
seemingly completed
comparable
exist. This
not
temps
problem. Gems
another
be
is
problem
du
and
work.
voluminous,
of the scientific
apparent
an
la recherche
and
appears
of
and
ance.
persever-
mammoth
even
have
contributors
of science
is
in
privee,however
the work
length of
importance of
Proust's
la vie
de
with
so
artists. The
finite lengtheven
Nibelungen,
Scenes
Genius
of the
measure
has
art
des
Wagner's Ring
perdu, Balzac's
as
the
of
patiencethan
more
mentioned
was
is
even
Nature
may
complete his
not
on
problem
with
finds
utmost
it is
his
as
its
Not
passage.
the
not
only the
in
incorrect
an
to
artist.His
said
leading the
the
his Faust
endless
patience of the
thetic
pa-
for
tist
scien-
fightin that
geniusneeds
is inherentlydifficult:
scientist faces
obstacles
along
chief obstacle is the "malice of objects,"
that
more
implying that
facetiously,
scientist astray
was
to
comments
was
scientific work
For
state
when
little man
perseverance.
path than
The
earthworm."
an
who
comfort
the
is sharplybrought
tragicimplications
F. T. Vischer
fun
his famulus
industryof
treasures,
with
enjoys
never
of scientific research
condition
the
scientist
affords. Goethe
finished work
on
itself.The
misled
hoped-for solutions.
has
nature
particular
who,
after months
in his
and
suppositions,
Fritz Haber
spent
many
or
years
has
years
of
not
on
59
Perseverance
The
the
the
to
why
only reason
the
geniusneeds
art
appear
science, are
or
perseverance.
ing
allud-
am
standards, can
daily life it
efforts. In
man's
easilydiscourage a
in
which, by normal
of success,
absence
him
day makes
every
queer
not
his work
torturingdifficultiesin
is found
frequent
in-
not
person'sinterest
lax,or changes to
in his work; he either becomes
indifferent,even
in the later
such a possibility
mentioned
another occupation. We
disappointmentscurtail
that continued
rather
genius;what we are concerned with here occurs
in the early phases of his life.
Success
particularly
not
come
easily.This was
to
a genius does
quently
in earlier times, nowadays unrecognized geniusesare less fretrue
Bartok, appreciated
encountered, although there are some.
years
of the
only
after his
however, there
death, is
were
many;
Mozart, Schubert,
Whitman.
and
Keats
patience the
The
case
circumstances, if
he is
value
are
firmlyconvinced,
indifferent
and
his output:
to
they
notice
not
later;here
matters
if the
man
is
to
the situation
remains
utmost,
if he is
strain. Such
cases
not
are
in the heaviest
and
of
enough, he
luckilyrare,
of trials. The
sensitive nature,
can
the
man
be
these
tax
may
perseverance
slowly
in other
steadiness;
during his
unchanged
recognition may
strong
him
of
and
if
their part,
the trend
Sometimes
him
Continuing absence
necessityof
the
his work.
continue
do
him
it, or
day. More
changes,rewarding
cases
of the
the order
are
nomic
eco-
of whose
creating work
in poverty,
not
nearly
mostly adverse
under
is
these conditions
requiresunder
man
his
break
entire
lifetime.
strengthto
the
under
the
down
force sustains
quasi-external
of genius,if unrecognized
the
most
unhappy
among
all
The
60
Mere
humanity.
the
or
less
not.
so
as
he
his
in
is
observer
impartial
is
patience
faith
unbounded
Nature
is
not
to
to
judge
the
Genius
enough,
and
vocation,
unable
unable
of
say
it
whether
whether
be
must
doggedness
it
the
is
work
coupled
of
virtue
is
with
which
or
truly
an
foible,
great
12
PROLIFICNESS
thought
that
the
produces
of
pointed
was
vast
it is
bag
reach, and
be
out
of
more
the
the
might
the
the
notice
of
the
out
up
such
goes
put
on
have
another,
great
not
less
amount,
so
ly
seeming-
only
to
siologica
phy-
certain
in
later
to
seems
tion
connec-
of
latter,
for
if
he
the
which
geniuses. By
ever
what-
Compare
piece
master-
immediately
will
you
the
has
even
everything
all
and
former
sources:
for
source,
is filled.
worker
lesser
the
magical
writer, observing
the
greatest
and
producing
continued,
not
plenty,
bag
for
has
of
has
he
which
said
word,
of
character
basically good,
possessed
it
into
being
is
thin,
that
so
him.
with
only through
many
had
man
genius
would
plenty,
remained
nothing
end,
only
if the
of
product
It is
except
best
horn
melodies.
or
be
kept filled, it
is
bag
the
demonstrable
no
the
thought
this difference:
formed
as
has
musician
be
It is
possession
is in
not
will
bag
magic
painter. Only
with
often
to
age.
means
artist
or
products. The
his
of
which
his
and
instances
he
with
is
into
disposal
reason
do
little
genius
say.
practically inexhaustible"
genius
many
to
material,
another
limitations
In
that
10
want
man's
comes
bottomless,
with
duct
pro-
writer
great
Information
we
scientific
the
at
Chapter
what
filled with
magic
stands;
information.
for
narrow
whether
in
out
of
store
too
fact
quality of the
has
genius. Quantity
be
might
It
deal.
great
creator
the
Yet
matter.
It
its
stamps
geniuses.
it is the
attribute, since
secondary
in
observed
frequently
is
Prolificness
an
had
lived
Of
on.
interesting question. If
one
could
to
come
ask:
are
this
course,
a
all
genius
his
an
doubt,
untimely
they
to
seems
never
brings
produces
products
of
The
62
is inclined
One
the
to
work
also
degree
that
least
on
sum
of those
great
I do
offered. Its
be wrong
To some
man.
control, is
for which
general characteristic
of the
health,
not
to
Mood
known
the
is the
all of
to
equallyimportant
it;
counteract
can
will, in the
strong
well
will
strong
certain
explanation
physiological
no
that it is
deny
degree
not
to
of his
state
called mood.
importance is
to
but
surroundings, and
internal influences
be
the
on
fluctuate. The
to
the man,
on
depends
in his immediate
it would
and
It
is bound
man
only
not
Genius
imponderable,commonly
can
us,
the
great
depends
circumstances
to
of
circumstances.
on
of
the
answer
quality of
on
Nature
of self-
sense
genius.
Not
the
others. It is
than
interest him
that he will
true
the
However,
most.
automaticallychoose
subjectis
those that
always entirelya
not
matter
violin
had
to
own
of Mozart.
concertos
depended
that
reason
freedom
emphasize
of
us
look
now
compared
with
The
interesting.
whom
at
the
same
origin.
subject! More
fascinating
Here
connection.
will
merely
the
facts. What
greatest
of
do
they
vast
indicate
Something
outlined?
expectationas
very
have
always
not
It stands
geniuses"and
duction
pro-
when
rather
it is these with
do not
show
the variation mentioned,
mainly concerned"
position
degree. There does not exist a comor
only to a minor
of lesser quality.
that might be termed
of Beethoven
we
are
Practicallythe
of his work
mean
the
executed.
of the
resonance
might show
Let
another
these various
For
do
genius" what
will
man
have
not
entirelyspontaneous
an
it in
that the
of the
assignments
if it
that the artist,
works
are
alone, would
of the
said of
will be
work.
such
works
quality as
The
him
on
These
that
was
some
same
holds
done
at
for Mozart,
the request
of others. That
of their works
could
not
be
does
some
not
preferredto others;
63
Prolificness
that is
of the
judge. The
not
of
one
In
Planck's
contrast
"whose
that
this,there
to
of this kind.
minor
beside
stand
for the
find
Their
not
men"
in
one
is
group
in
and
group
excellence
in
is
group
nearly
that with
could
daily
such
cause
to
who
and
is present
the second
the variation
show
first
degree. The
marked
tried
I have
explain
to
factors
many
are
the
quality,yet
often
is rich
fountain
the
regard:
will
and
be
can
groups
prolificproduction there
in
few,
and
us
very
tioned.
men-
name
In this respect
of
rest
in this
variation
the
work
unnatural
to
to
the
quality,excellent pieces
is a fairlygood criterion
greatest
little closer
justa
modest
our
the
It is the
bottomless.
seems
variation
Both
quite generally.
work,
produce much
it holds
both
prolific,
are
between
distinction
that
This
ones.
is
the greatest
among
variation
the
is of varied
work
show
not
taste
clarity.
great
are
clearlyindicates
work
that would
books
or
papers
the
on
quality.There
is of lesser
none
depth, originalityand
in
utmost
point is
depend mainly
will
truly
great
that
affected
un-
are
all
geniuses
for
And
this very
of concentration:
masters
little.It is
said
that
an
writing only,
"when
scarcelyany
other
he
compact;
his
introductory books
only
few
collections
to
surpassedhim
books
is
are
into
of
so
say
his
too
much
in
by
full of what
they
those
Among
mention
an
hauer
Schopen-
"oligographer,"
a
precision and
fact,
cinctness.
suc-
is
literary output
besides
numerous;
theory of relativitythere
his scattered
essays
as
if,as often
whose
one
not
to
are
unusual,
again,even
being
on
something
had
writer
brief
are
like
I should
scientists,Einstein
Among
to
Original Theme."
actuallyprided himself
who
rather
on
in compactness
excelled
understood
again and
it forth
These
interesting.
are
of the great
most
they bring
they
exceptions, although
are
feature,this compactness;
remarkable
before, because
cherish
there
prolific;
reason
they
are
and
two
are
talks. This
The
64
in
is
sparseness
Nature
striking
the
of
contrast
Genius
the
to
inner
vast
his
of
contents
work.
Chopin's
music.
is
One
is
might
think
quite
not
only
lesser
you
works
is
It
of
volumes
his
to
his
rather
the
This
forty
years'
who
lived
Schubert
say,
piano
life.
short
compare
of,
thirty-one.
of
left
significance,
he
indeed.
feels
within
one
can
he
cannot
his
mind.
do
that
only
had
Some
I
sort.
some
like
cases
everything
Generally,
activity,
due
was
when
seen
freak
are
unusual,
defect
carries
of
age
compress
Very
be
paucity
numerous
there
Finally,
of
this
three
in
mainly
of
result
ciseness
con-
expression.
in
work
contained
may
the
the
to
as
so,
with
output
to
work
to
say:
live
think
the
long
who,
Bizet
besides
He
masterpiece.
one
might
not
of
say
be
into
that
inclined
to
some
able
was
single
work.
consider
it
so.
genius,
enough
during
to
bring
his
of
period
forth
all
he
13
CHARACTER
We
have
been
discussing
for
essential
features
other
some
not
much
so
might
we
and
the
social,
of
part
his
prefer, the
certain
are
belonging
ethics
Without
of
uttered
in
views
morals,
if
He
about
morals
goodness
Absolute
principles
they
set
up
to
country
known
our
time
there
kill:
at
minor
the
if you
or
locale
nations
little variation
Romans,
take
in
this.
suit
to
another,
in
the
that
but
one
servant,
such
an
although
short
time
relatively
example,
a
their
from
vary
to
in
killing
in
moral,
principles
century
To
and
scarcely imaginable;
The
Even
tion
concep-
truth
great
and
time.
he
as
weakness
absolute
an
are
unethical; today,
not
in
is
groups
one
changes.
the
as
terms
standard
sign of
behavior
and
from
the
his
with
agree
colorful
such
There
development.
been
was
this
begin
fire-spitting
philosopher
believe
not
ethical
relatively
of
I'll
one.
certainly
we
it
badness.
another,
time
cause
did
the
toward
individuals,
historical
have
are
genius. Or,
character,
the
in
not
considered
on
by
show
might
some
word
perhaps
and
needs, conditioned
one
talking of
writings,
he
by
They
of his
particular
any
every
his
hypocrisy. Moreover,
are
to
and
absolute
his work.
consequence
contemptuous
was
for
with
continue
us
genius.
Nietzsche
employed.
activity. Let
the
teristics
charac-
genius's personal
to
by
subscribing
on
rather
as
discourses
our
the
strictly necessary
cause
not
far
so
creative
not
they
say,
TRAITS
of
short
to
not
slave, for
action
would
be
manslaughter.
This
to
our
of ethics
principle of relativity
present
the
topic, the
must
suit
very
special individual,
need
of
the
as
genius.
individual
we
have
67
finds
Moral
or
striking application
principles,
a
amply
group.
as
The
demonstrated
said,
we
genius
so
is
far;
The
68
Nature
the
of
Genius
moral
principlesthat suit
nearly impossible that the same
human
being should suit his specialneeds. A genius
average
it is
an
cannot
be
course,
conform
minded
judged by
in
must
we
the law,
to
judging
realizingthose needs,
then, brieflycertain
in the
The
found
from
him
features
but
man,
Some
the
be
to
be enumerated
to
be broad-
must
this end
people, not
Let
unjustifiedly.
traits of
character
traitsof great
as
them
review,
us
genius, often
in the
condoned
demned
con-
tional.
excep-
always,
not
frequently,
are
of
must,
standpoint.To
specialneeds.
his
censure
average
ethical
an
he
Although
anybody else,one
as
understand
to
try
standards.
average
men.
It cannot
be otherwise;he finds
rule,a geniusis egocentric.
if they do appreciatehis
himself mostly among
people who, even
As
work, do
understand
actually
not
surroundings. The
isolated in his
he
mutual:
does
features, and,
himself
his
While
hard
be
it can
This
is
not
and
children
rather
The
lovable
In
the
great
known
to
common
conscious
enlarge on
trait,and
in
an
have
been
crowd
of his
superiorityand
Goethe
and
dren.
chil-
examples,
are
he
his
loved
egocentricism
are
chapters.
haughty. He
knows
that
may
is
actuallyrepelling.
person
be
excused.
Shaw
is
approached
did
tance,
acquain-
and
it
own.
loving husbands
in later
some
and
conceited, and
whenever
his wife
some
this
of
average
it is understandable
his wider
his creations
among
conceited
geniusis sometimes
not
and
ramifications
will
interesting;
we
been
Wagner
said that
to
between
of his
world
circle,on
there have
so:
the great:
Various
most.
he is different from
the
his immediate
on
always
fathers among
Thomas
Mann
and
is littleconcern
egocentricnature
of his basic
one
is erected
is often
of others,
amusements
wall
lives in
surroundings. He
himself
sees
understanding
loneliness is
invisible
result, an
lack of
His
result,he
pleasure in the
different.
are
as
his
and
find
not
his interests
since
him. As
not
him.
conceal
Beethoven
his
was
opinion.One
should
not
it is
genuine. Schopenhauer'sphiloso-
Character
condemns
phy
the
he
stupid.Whether
have
it is obvious
not,
out
immortal
To
avoid
character
did
by
no
is not
impeccable, as
means
incidental
weaknesses; we
he
may
his
genius;it
who
man
is these
works
Finally his
the
and
another
from
his, new
man
exhibit
those.
Again,
definite correlation
is
may
He
with
concerned
How
has excessive
with
who
the
is younger,
advanced
more
this is! He
natural
and
acknowledged
methods,
genius's
tacitlyexpect.
animosityduring
appears
emphasize:
jealousnature.
is
his
written
talkingabout.
are
a
exceptions.
have
not
to
that show
we
greatness
Then
weaken
must
point
not
hard, who
indifference
meets
to
some
are
exhibit weaknesses
genius is often of
is a
generallyinferior
would
wish
misunderstanding, I
the few
among
served
not
that he
felt
point
right or
was
69
part of
major
Traits
mostly
who
famous.
becomes
views, and
threatens
to
his
his own
strenuously gained position,to overshadow
for which
he had fought during the best part of
views, principles,
his life.His
known.
are
many
sad
typicalexample. Haydn
Brahms
and
majestyin
One
success.
possiblethat
man
Bruckner's
insightaroused
contemptuous
derided each
Bruckner
reads amazed
like Brahms
music?
are
rivalries of which
of Schiller and
story
made
result
He
Holderlin
remarks
about
other; Mahler
is
thoven;
Bee-
hated
did
not
have
an
likelyhad, and
very
for the
eye
just that
his
pardonable jealousy,
incitinghim to derisive
As may
be seen, the degree of his own
is not
comments.
success
a
decisive factor;jealousy is found in the highly successful as well
as
in the unsuccessful
believe
A
made
there
further
are
few
excusable
of this before.
rather among
genius.It
is
in whom
trait in
It is
not
of their universal
one
it is
a
great
a
I
traits;
entirely absent.
man
is vanity.Mention
universal
feature,and
was
belongs
is apt
The
70
rather
smile than
to
vain, so
frown.
to
And
Wagner.
was
amusing inasmuch
the second order; it
is
Nature
as
of the Genius
Courbet
known
was
scientists there
among
plenty. It
were
finds it frequentlyamong
one
that it is
appears
excessively
be
to
the great of
promoted by
mild
degree
of
complex.
inferiority
mention
Let me
a subjectthat deserves
specialtreatment; it will
the sex life of the
be discussed in detail in Chapter 18. I mean
ter.
genius.In a sense it belongs into the present discussion on characIt has
said that
been
he deals with
in which
manner
the
particularly
is
people. Conscientiousness
exactly a
strong
is revealed
own
of
way
with
regard
by the
genius,and
money.
dealing with
the
conformity with
in
mediocre
to
of
way
is
women
not
point of artists.
Since I mentioned
of
of the "vices"
its
has
always
not
and
women
artistic type,
which
women,
character
man's
money
a
ago, let
moment
us
explainedin Chapter
hoarding of
that the
It
matter.
is
money
was
a
never
The
fact that some
chief purpose.
reasonably
were
wealthy, either because of their parentage or unexpected income
through their work, is not in contradiction with the statement,
man's
great
since it could
Far
from
they actuallysquander it in
hoarding money,
fashion.
unreasonable
generators,
that reason.
such
was
Tesla, the
Nikola
a
is their due.
inventor
typicalsquanderer. Many
of
rather
electrical
were
poor
for
some
This
is
thus
not
Lack
Some
surprising.
provided him
them
owed
his
letters
Wagner's
no
with
the
duty
to
expressed this
to
were
in clear
so
of these
displayed this
a
weakness.
large income
He
from
he
happy, he
actually did
create,
wrong.
was
found
in
some
probablyrealized
his
Considering what
perhaps not
terms:
More
expect
geniuseswere
money
thanks.
standpoint was
and is
way of living,
convinced
that society,
of their unconventional
consequence
writings,and
that he
since
could
not
he felt that he
Character
had
still
in
needed
his
not
so
lack
of
in
rebuttal
rare.
to
become
however
him
the
in
point
the
first
in
the
of
nature
is
no
medieval
way
look
to
there
is
upon
in
strict
and
The
he
is
explanation
this
much
not
Villon
band
detracts
poet
in
activities
illegal
lyric
rather
badly
as
can
we
sign
say
consistent.
Francois
of
been
record.
similar
man,
he
years
businessmen,
inclined
be
to
member
illegal,
as
in
other
the
spend
have
to
with
is
71
to
known
and
anyone
want
we
in
case
is
one
genius
true
if
Extremes
if
and
easy,
of
only
wish
not
publishers
the
not
did
Shaw
with
dealings
he
say,
poverty.
probably
is
to
more
Traits
who
of
by
thieves.
from
of
the
power
matters
money
poverty
This
driven
was
circumstance,
recognition
and
are
we
convincing
owe
cerity.
sin-
14
OUTSIDE
the
Within
question
frame
be
can
the
to
than
of
for
the
have
men
of
life
and
does
tions
inclina-
nothing
more
appears
the
be
the
if
wrong
objects
of
inclination
the
life, although
It would
among
of
natures
the
genius
instance,
luxuries
from
luxuries
the
for
made,
simple circumstances.
those
these
the
aspects
given. Indeed,
be
cannot
was
them
Since
most?
diversity of
Mention
particular
question
natural
what
of
biography
general
asked:
genius appreciate
of great
of
INTERESTS
greatest
wanted
one
some
lived
exclude
to
cumstances
cir-
in
appreciate.
the
Reading
into
or
to
include
he
time.
The
word,
describe
from
what
obvious
those
nature.
This
likes
have
be
which
great
walk
parts,
have
in
in
life, on
of
the
the
is
that
rather
in
he
could
of
valuation
to
great
his
mind
not
directly
of the
spends
genius,
his
to
not
own
cerned.
con-
free
used
been
have
implied. It should
the
use
be
field
clear
is
too
question.
our
consistently found
open
is
man
which
there
in
keep
raphies
biog-
that
interest
side interest
genius,
often
admiration.
express
among
The
is
one
nature-loving.
itself in various
show
the
is the
what
to
is
man
impression
course,
which
their
into
preferred, however,
for
geniuses
for
may
said
of
about
we
answer
an
fields,we
Two
relaxation
slight
we
to
best
subject;
our
somewhat
word,
the
glancing
fairlyconsistent
must,
we
talking
are
considers
what
to
we
or
gives the
wrote
any
What
masters,
particular and
discussing these,
In
man.
the
they
letters
fields of
two
are
of
works
country,
not
plain woods
What
72
There
ways.
necessarily in
and
he
will
likes
fields, not
is
nature
be
one
some
who
tacular
spec-
presenting
in
itself,in
The
74
whatever
the
their
same
scientist
do
with
is
they
are
into
goes
interested
in
endless
details
merely
latter
Similarly
he
nothing
the
Thomas
musical
plot;
Mann's
is
creations
it
to
shows,
to
with
the
phrase"
technical
scarcely
necessary
the
scope
the
of
art
that
the
the
his
of
with
Proust
of
artist
painting.
he
ing.
touch-
is
Leverkuhn's
of
promotion
the
interest
he
story,
which
sonata
description
of
that
fictitious
love
in
for
Socrates,
music.
his
plot
the
sonata;
nothing
instrument,
of
on
poet,
everywhere!
the
enlarge
exacting
however,
musical
Vinteuil's
"little
of
lovers
paintings
do
to
writer
with
repetitiously
returns
in
deals
the
men,
recreations;
Creation
painting.
about
of
dominant
pre-
creative
professionally
were
play
so
philosopher,
highest
many
all
is
course,
element,
for
have
they
Planck
that
creative
intuitively,
the
as
great
has
for
serves
it
and
then
the
Elstir;
love
wonder
no
Quite
of
reason,
appeal
strong
The
be.
the
although
Nietzsche
Shakespeare,
It
music,
They
it.
has
art,
Gemus
to
nature:
to
artist.
or
loves
physicist
to
of
the
of
happens
respect
works
in
whether
field
own
with
as
Nature
his
had
writer
music.
There
interest
genius.)
is
for
scarcely
arts.
(Note:
genius
an
without
interest
an
for
overwhelming
arts
does
general
not
make
15
RELATION
In
of
Chapter
behavior.
his
being,
own
in
living
would
exhibit
latent
stay
good
in
person
are
or
such
of
relation
somewhat
It
It is
others.
enough
which
that
often
to
seems
whose
of
taste
tell
him
that
foreigner
as
man
Chinese
of
of
be
though
the
There
geniuses,
fascinated
work
the
Sophocles
of scientific
may
genius
he
from
the
by
of
genius
is
an
average
he
observer
relies
genius
an
he
is
on
a
Indian
under
75
is
for
not
strange
invisible
external,
the
too
straint
con-
source;
raries
contempoHe
advanced.
biologically of the
is
not
foreigner
a
is
same
with
concerned
impressions which
his direct
to
from
radically different
works
although
stamp,
or
is
posterityonly,
knowledge
or
of
discussion
drama
they
even
emanate
anthropology;
or
on
the
remarks
general interest.
works
that
recall
the
species. However,
biology
Yet
of
grasp.
different
has
one
or,
words
various
brief
the
let alone
is for
his work
for
creature
to
others,
few
say
comment
rightly, that
said, and
was
earlier,
not
society,
their
beyond
then
us
of
character
not
are
toward
acts
subject
Kepler.
to
features
his
is
man
behavior
the
into
society. Although
The
could
or
genius
Let
made
been
Greco,
Newton
of
sum
toward
order.
of El
painting
as
the
people who
many
a
in
These
might
not.
or
inquire
can
general.
have
be
one
Basically
relations.
others
others.
to
in
human
meets
feature,
genius
line
will
matter
he
simply
the
of
this
along
this
society
say,
attitude
whether
are
of
absence
he
same
of it
features
some
person,
the
peculiar character,
his
has
and
feature
others.
to
sum
ideas
is
person
reference
direct
is the
views,
own
of
society,although
relation
traits, they
might
the
in
from
Apart
forest,
in human
bad,
or
without
his
to
character
the
character
Now,
traits,pertaining
Strictlyspeaking,
alone
spoke of character.
we
person's ethical
of
13
SOCIETY
TO
to
him.
Westerner,
As
much
and
even
The
76
Of
more
so.
of
meeting
few
course,
lucky enough
are
genius,they
true
of the Genius
Nature
much
are
have
to
too
the
opportunity
rare
us
is invaluable for
say here holds also for the lesser geniuswho
curious observers in that,being more
frequent,he permits us
to
have
we
glimpse
at
happens
to
big brother.
genius and society,facingeach other with
the
they are,
he
As
for society, its reaction
unpleasant helplessness.
the strange "bug" is clear-cut, prescribinga straightforward
to
worldly;
abnormal, inhuman, unpath to follow. It considers the creature
a
of
sense
waste
genius's
fied
generallyrecognized,it is modi-
become
by
is
cowed
unrecognized
result
famous.
or
in
The
in
is
acquaintancesand
of his
concerns
matters
to
of the latter
which
he
primitiveto
seem
sports events,
as
or
politics,
ephemeral
What
is the
of
know
them
him:
few, do
to
talk about,
justas the
interest. An
friendlyrelations.
of shows
the
petitive
com-
or
of relaxation,
as
means
of
general interest,
conditions
changing too
meets
not,
matters
economic
he
are
ments
by others. The amusethe reading of low-class
the attendance
mention
current
result? When
what
to
to
in his eyes,
possiblemutual
conducive
share, he
by necessity,without
worth
and
not
ideas
everyday life,the
of job security,
relatives,
matters
attends
literature,
including newspapers,
such
few
of
Matters
preferencegiven
and
thought,time
seem
extend
to
savings and
mostly
social
able.
also understand-
has
societyis
The
sarily
neces-
attitude in
societyfeels compelled
genius toward
person
average
common.
an
not
financial.
or
of the
behavior
societydoes
it is
action:
animosity in
active assistance,
moral
of
attitude
in instances when
behavior,even
The
This
appear
shallow
in
latter is at
he
society,
a
loss for
atmosphere is created
does
topics
that is little
Relation
This
is branded
He
such
Society
shyness. A
genius
he
genuinely introvert,or
77
pany.
usually shy in comcolorful expressions,
is
more
necessarily.The
not
only behave
may
because
so
ground
with
for him
and
who
caused
only apparent,
was
Such
society.Luckily,
not
his fellow
for
exceptions to
are
terminology
goes,
the
truly great,
more
the
incomplete
ones.
is
Shyness
men.
realitydifferent. Conceit
in
trait. The
behavioral
latter
friendly
well-known
students
helpfulto
field but
many
was
so
form
stronger
of
ness.
shy-
of cold
was
behavior.
stern
professorwho
is kind
excellent
man
and
in his
question.Dumas
of rudeness,
mer,
of the for-
consequence
simply
of
type
cannot
be
touch, they
of mind, unfriendliness
colleaguesis often an
the truly great.
among
probably
geniuses
the colloquial
are
aspects
two
and
rarelyfound
probably not
deplorableboth
be
genius may
point raised in Chapter
frame
might
that many
are
great men
lot. Planck, for example,
common
The
is
the lines in
Reading between
conclude
common
worse.
are
it. It is
exist without
it can
or
that the
any
as
are,
touching on
are
definitelyunfriendly.We
13, concerning conceit. Although the
are
of
gentle trait;there
of
always. There
who
of lack
obvious
situation is
be
congenial, his
the absence
by
may
genius
If he luckily meets
someone
congenial company.
becomes
it
shynessmiraculously disappears; then
latter
words
infrequentlyapplied.These
not
are
although
justified,
be
Other
introvert.
an
wolf"
"lone
as
may
result in
might
to
This
Brahms.
sense,
Shaw
and
pere
in
to
answer
niaiserie
known
were
trait in behavior
or
cious
offi-
some
not
genius it is pardonable
exactly
because
of
society'sgenerallyhostile attitude.
Whichever
that
way
we
look
said earlier,is
people such
as
upon
not
this matter,
see
entirely understandable.
you
and
eye
to
the
eye.
Society, an
most
myself,appreciates
conclusion
And
this,as
is
I
assembly of
of all conformity.
The
78
No
atrocity
greater
A
standards.
of
thoughts
The
everyday
is
genius
in
hostility
they
are
every
as
its
to
evident
natural
by
in
and
consequence.
those
the
its
of
traits
have
the
in
of
to
reaction
natural,
innovations
unwelcome
are
innovation.
any
no
new
run,
is
way
values;
new
These
long
foundations
cultural
whose
rest.
to
only
not
very
The
in
in
foundations,
life.
the
objects
are
as
own
of
phase
becomes
its
well
by
the
development
geniuses
which
the
involve
distrusted
highly
clings
naturally
genius
technology
and
system
of
they
sense,
society
automatically
people
thoughts
new
science
of
group
accepted
to
whole
of
work
contemporaries,
by
resented
any
slowly
and
The
accepted
commits
other
any
that.
the
to
from
deviation
than
forgive
traced
Genius
than
more
beneficial
although
strongly
who
one
gradually
are
the
of
imagine
cannot
be
can
thoughts,
since
is
society
humanity
it
can
genius
and
atrocity,
Nature
economy,
wonder
society
that
which
time-proven
own
the
genius
briefly
to
outlined:
this
16
CONCEPT
DILUTED
The
following
remarks
of
are
have
remarks
genius, mentioned
do
to
the
by
the
the
of
nature
with
the
reacts
genius
diluted
so-called
society
way
appendix
an
of the
relation
the
to
society.
to
of
concept
tion
Essentially, this dilu-
I of this discunsion.
in Part
is caused
GENIUS
OF
the
upon
phenomenon
genius.
Look
all those
at
perhaps
shade
he
in
her
father
of
three
person,
for
country.
activities have
such
he
as
has
he
who
scientist
is the
and
he
his
colleagues
and
newspapers
What
certain
worth
we
do
the
old
us,
of
believe
imitating.
best
our
not
to
in
such
but
course,
as
our
efforts
our
order
do
it, I
have
achievements,
our
easily admit
showing
could
it either
products, often
been
to
79
as
that
to
only
not
but
the
also
genius.
First, there
worth
become
And
talent
us
more
is
or
at
better
less
all of
least. Some
to
come
in
hidden,
of
the
vain, but
others.
and
We
if
so
It is
too.
Not
try.
we
to
it, and
great,
might
or
ourselves
much
bit
practical value,
his
singer
hail him
his
certainly
can.
of
that
"
to
his
to
some
others
have
is
in
him
others
exaggerations?
man
after
soon
his greatness,
imitate
to
us
great
imitate
If he
argument:
of
of these
of
in many
has
boon
light,a
critics, too,
pointing
keep
explanation
tendency
that
will
magazines
is the
while
convinced
are
to
and
in his innermost
who
contributed
vast
forgotten
it
The
is the
clever
be
not
politician,a
tenor
asserts
before.
existed
never
celebrity. There
if not,
or,
will
and
is
of the
think
Or
firmly
is
clerk, marries
by his followers
nearly always he
stopped.
"
is the
is acclaimed
Yet
is convinced
heart
becomes
child,
is the
mother
whose
average,
There
children.
There
us.
something
who
shrewd
on
is
the
belief, until he
shaken
the
than
brighter
that
convinced
around
"geniuses"
us
clusion
con-
we
insist
we
are
The
80
lucky enough
and praise our
Even
in
find
to
many
achievement
there
cases,
be
to
at
people show
time
some
ambitions
will have
the
This
hammering
make
to
them
acclaim
Obviously there
asserted claims.
hope
be
to
indifferentlyor
claimant,
spoiltheir
at
utmost
another
or
with
even
own
those
of it and
show
to
to
the
claim.
own
so
This
deeply
something more
to
long enough
accept
who
in the audience
day. Should
some
reluctance
become
time. It is in their
raise
of
victims
men.
some
great
his claims
actuallyturn
chances
be
may
acclaimed
wide
geniuses be sufficiently
would
had
many
consider
now
use
great
the whole
not
themselves
is wrong:
impossible.But
to
conversations
during
is
story. There
of the audience
in this willingness
is
rooted
act
assumption
well
too
accept
regard. Intimate
have
they are
hammer
to
be
to
their
will do
that
the world
when
another
or
doctor, would
limitations
own
whether
some
they
in that
be
to
us
simple man,
plain country
that this
later found
have
who
clerk, or
or
all of
in
is practically
out
nobody with-
unjustified
hopes
such
been
general desire
cherish
with
inborn
is the
One
farmer, worker
such
of
out
acknowledged. There
that ambition.
no
of the Genius
sympatheticlisteners,
they nod approvingly
disregardingthis
somebody,
Nature
toward
momentary
they would
down,
they
merely
group
is the
basic
for
reason
the
diluted
concept.
Nearly
all of
us
contemporaries,and
for the selfish
a
mentioned.
reason
large number
sufficiently
little.We
relatively
or
retiring;there
So
Let
us
one
of
are
people
plenty who
more
whom
deny it
It is
certainlycannot
it is that group
add
in fact
would
we
admiration
them,
to
were
imperative that
great.
Who
be bothered
talk loud
and
elevate and
thought.There
is
we
to
it
our
not
declare
that is,matters
with
demand
the modest
tion.
recogni-
admire.
reallynothing wrong
17
GENIUS
There
is
It
is the
genius
and
curious
his
have
life without
either
lucky
or
the
scientific
all ages,
future;
were
often
often
drew
is
employed
by
university
the
through
went
of them,
it. To
however,
make
been
the
or
the
living
lem,
prob-
geniuses
aristocracy; they
frequent employment
most
where
academy,
times
earlier
In
sometime
likelyto change
is
Nowadays
art
or
here
mean
who
great
rulers, Popes,
salaries.
the
paid.
This
ours.
between
employer.
tion.
elabora-
needs
relation
actually needed
tell for
cannot
we
that
employed. Many
artistic
or
including
regular
at
say,
us
among
sought employment
in
let
ones
been
ever
from
unhappy
he is
having
purely
in
or,
rather
for which
been
EMPLOYE
foregoing chapters
and
master,
regular employment
There
in the
point
one
AS
have
they
teaching
duties.
In
some
cases
but
in the
this
majority it is
in
partly explained
work;
these
is
first
the
In
place
everything
is interested
genius
else
is
burden.
is often
have
reasons
so
only
in
been
discussion
short
of
at
creative
for
energy
destined
to
look
and
the
is
be
not
not
works
is
prevented
by
any
82
is
amount
his
own,
of
hard
or
from
as
creative
if devoted
youth's
and
sufficient
leaving
art
not
after, even
forming
of
in
required
from
certainly
man
creative
own
frequent duties,
most
often, teaching
original
accomplish,
the
at
patience,
cannot
the
that
what
Quite
producing
genius
true
of
One
not
teachers
work.
time
requiring
rate
any
different
nature
his
work
the
Now,
teaching, and
is
enthusiastic
chapters,
previous
easily understandable.
occupation,
and
employments
mentioned,
was
as
affair. The
thorny
suffice.
will
as
the
tion,
fric-
without
smoothly,
works
employment
mind
tedious,
and
time
science.
doing
of
what
extraneous
he
is
duty.
Genius
and
interfere with
will
this
Still,
Employe
as
83
promote
genius,and
While
often the
employer, this is
always
not
satisfythe
to
one
is
from
of the money
he earns
Sometimes
the positionis
is in need
man
is
down,
conducive
not
an
him
so.
high
not
actually would
with
it. Exceptionally, such
be
to
a
want
position may
part
he was
satisfactory,
outwardly at least,as with Goethe, when
of Weimar.
Often
such positionslead to
minister at the court
enough
to
man's
in the
clashes,as
open
vanity,and
his
of Voltaire
case
he
the
at
of Frederick
court
the Great.
Cases, where
the
like,againstodds,
his best
to
is
man
pleased with
go
to
enough
to
When
the
he
prince whom
that the
he thinks he
not
employer had
the
offered.
suspicious,and
such
in earlier times
always the
victim
to
the
vinced
actually con-
heart,his
ability
true
is wrong,
friction. Third
extremes
all these
income
in
Nearly
to
contrast
The
the
make
to
what
partiesthat
the
favors
and
of continual
barely escaped
trouble
with
and
is the
factors
was
employer
because
of Ben-
case
employed by
rulers. He
they provided
possibilities
open
best,he finds
of machinations.
himself
source
his
Cellini.
master.
are
his
venuto
own
his whole
increase
to
classical illustration of
his
in
positiongo
weaken
put
doing
pleased,and
the accusation
their bit
the man's
envy
involved
becomes
was
far from
serves
had
man
Intrigues do
how
reallyknow
not
practicalenough, nor
diplomatic
with
the assignment to full satisfaction,
even
out
carry
he
tries
He
is he
him; neither
man
he does
to
strange
instructive.
particularly
keep it,are
to
would
position and
his
to
an
steady
artist who
was
these
positionswere
danger; on
number
in the
nothing
but
of occasions
employment
of
The
84
Clement
Pope
the
VII,
various
and
What
is
artist,
burden.
this
becomes
the
often
the
ardent
this
and
feel
themselves
achieve.
to
hard
to
is
genius;
in
it
show
is
any
the
of
the
or
of
place
notably
him
over
are
compulsion
direct
to
with
genius's
enforced
of
the
genius
from
compulsion,
in
from
the
one
life
other,
are
first
others,
everyday
to
change
for
will
men
position
not
permitted
This
them.
the
is
case
possible
this
in
to
is
pay
will
may
what
do
take
the
his
man
own
day
one
not
they
be
easy
that
circumstance
whether
to
to
aim
perhaps
respect;
independence
be
difficulties
particular
certainly
desire
suited
best
of
One
know
will
great
in
curious
who
full
genius.
elementary
recognized,
from
I,
activities.
control
each
people
the
of
future
and
simple
be
wish
the
Perhaps
of
life
reconciled
oppose
Independence
wishes
petty
most
two
troubled
needs
seems
be
Francis
part
the
which
King
artistic
exercise
to
cannot
the
same
the
discussed
compulsion
French
scientist,
on
we
Genius
his
the
as
source
misery.
the
right
When
people.
by
led
well
external
activities;
the
always
have
Chapter
invisible
an
III,
Compulsion
who
In
Paul
the
hampering
as
independence.
employers
is
he
obstacles
the
of
Pope
Dukes,
intrigues
Nature
in
word
it
is
question
for
it.
18
SEX
After
topic
discussed
having
is
fairly obvious:
inspired
and
course,
the
material
of
present
point of view.
Sex
is
own
is
true
activity of the
depends
rest,
the
his
of
success
is available
To
is
to
sex,
in
least
have
his
In
aim,
is reflected
He
under
those
Don't
an
ideal
than
and
course
his
and
output
information
exact
is
of
from
range
all
an
collected
a
ones,
too
his
and
toward
the
of
secondary
exhibit
are
scientific
and
slow
life,which
is
Although
minds.
remark
us
in this respect.
in
peace
called
progress.
has
basically monogamist,
be
mostly
of
man
order
dull,
This
of the
A
to
ment.
excite-
no
peculiar features
scientists
of
is
importance.
discourses, let
with
women
there
group
not
our
scientist's
sex
that
atmosphere
daily regularity
in
in
is of
do
striking
they
ways
also
who
attitude
characteristic
sex
respect
statesmen
some
bourgeois
that
those
first
in its
of
in
too
that
needs
scientist
pattern.
not
people's;
matters
excluded
parentheses
achieve
in
among
at
the
little
geniuses whose
are
other
behavior
Foremost
we
there
from
different
specific attitude
in
sensitive
more
upon
if the
wonder
no
present.
at
genius. His
it is
ways
of which
to
attempt
an
actually influence
matter
and
biographies
geniuses, especially
so
extent
felt
have
poets
is
many
many
appreciable
an
the
following
people,
in
person
his work,
begin with,
not
other
life. It may
love
quality of
for
next
subject, and, of
the
on
life of
the
in
even
genius,
The
men.
pivotal factor
artists. This
the
great
and
through
is scattered
autobiographies
our
view
genius, the
the
life. Writers
sex
their
air
to
life of
social
it is his
entitled
vast
LIFE
even
regularity
strict
family
feels
happy
children, and
conditions.
misunderstand
husband,
by
me:
no
means.
do
not
He
85
maintain
needs
the
that
frame
scientist
of
is
family
The
86
life,but he
what
do
is
we
not
by
course,
American
men
to
as
must
and
Of
ideal husband.
an
inasmuch
slipperyground,
that
ideal husband.
an
mean
of the Genius
Nature
husband
that holds
probably
rule
claim
cannot
continental
Europeans,
ideal husband
scientific
with
preoccupied
as
scientist is
for
more
questionis,
treading a littleon
am
simplephrase,an
one
lover. A
and
the
be
to
genius.He
is
lover. When
too
he is
he
man,
young
So there you
have
the
life of
sex
scientific genius in
nutshell:
good family man, but not an ideal husband. This is the standard
picture,with deviations here and there. Great scientists and philosophe
sometimes
of
shyness
these
stay
the
into
that of
exceed
The
unworldly
men,
from
develop
bachelors.
typicalbachelor, and
family man, if they are
unattractive
an
suitable
finding a
find
and
nature
They
mate.
that
peace
might
bothered
particularly
not
of
genius.It makes
mentioned
was
inspiration
or
that
reasons
as
more
tiveness,
rather obvious. Inven-
are
of the chief
one
in what
difference,however,
requisites
field
man
is
of his inspirationdepends on
his field
active;clearly,the source
is more
less interwoven
An
with the
artist'swork
of activity.
or
of
concerns
source
taken
of
has
inspiration
meaning
literally,
the actual
meaning
an
source
The
twofold
from
source
spiritual
sense,
source
of his
contact
It
significance.
which
providesthe
with
atmosphere.Even
tion.
inspira-
can
he collects his
also be taken
It may
that
of
sources
women
in
proper
be
topic,
higher,
phere
atmos-
tal
is a fundamen-
people entirelyvoid
of
Life
Sex
when
geniality,
is the
such
all. This
Let
not
has curious
look
us
to
love,
led
are
write
to
love
poems:
this
not
consequences.
closer
with
this situation
at
While
descending loves.
and
in
of love.
power
stationarylove
power,
at
and
young
87
regard
flourishes
love
and
ascending
to
man's
grows,
and
is
condition
There
is
act
every
evidence
for
genius,it
it promotes
is
at
of
nature.
physiological
there
partly well established,
matter
individual;in
stimulus.
as
hormonal
this,a factor
behind
chemistry of the
the
Sexual
likelyto
not
more
With
activation
flourishes. In
also
joy
activityof the
influence
is of greater
satisfaction,
resulting in
positive
in every
ity
importance, since the activlevel than
level
low
general,found
is
incomparably higher
an
testes,
is
of
in others.
mone,
hor-
testicular
has
physiologicaleffects
with
the
As
two
love
of love, those
states
rule, love
positivehormonal
decreases
is in
the
What
after consummation
will
course
situation?
his creative
a
He
artistic
needs
love
must
love
may
genius take
as
after intimacy,
increase
an
he
activity,
stage. As
corollary,
accompanying negative
with
rule, because
and
consummation,
cases
are
in this somewhat
not
ing
exact-
keep
his love
always
the
situation
is the
on
the increase
nearlyimpossibledemand.
One
way
of
lettinga love
the
before
increase
too
we
intimately connected
ing.
called ascending and descendare
activityaccompanies that
activation. I said, as
"
mentioned
dealing with
affair
come
negativeperiod sets
without
formal
to
in.
consummation,
and
obvious
dropping
one
of
it when
marriage,are
considered
unethical
in the
bourgeois
The
88
world; for
would
of caution
is in
be
sake
licentia
be
might
of
unlike
poetica, not
always give
not
of
art
cerity
possibleinsin-
products
lyricpoems, he
I said,this cannot
Heine's
as
reference
certainty.His
with
maintained
from
outlined, yet,
the method
followed
have
Biographies do
life,and, because
love
about
tial,
essen-
Heine was
probably
illogical.
mutandis, George Sand. A word
conclusion
of the artist,
the part
on
not
order, however.
information
correct
be
may
be
an
Genius
an
its condemnation
and
of the
Nature
his many
to
may
must
be
romances
spellingfor the
incorrect
rhyme.
more
standards
the
way
carried
with
it
the
Both
through with
great
he displayedin
regularity
of
recurring sources
The
inspiration.
opportunity for
aspects
during
of life.
from
draw
which
continually
periods,while providing
ficial
benesimultaneously
interim
search, are
renewed
of relaxation
times
all other
described
ways
regularity,in keeping
and
success
spend
more
he collected
executing the projects for which
material during the previous period of soaring and enthusiasm.
of inspiration.
in equal need
of this type
Not
all artists are
need it most
who
Those
are
poets and painters:it is these two
time
who
work,
on
for the
and
lyricpoet,
the
these
two.
still less,
for this type
about
of
are
The
needs
what
women
has been
to
The
inspiration.
are
no
are
the
lesser
ment
developlargely
degree, a
boundaries
we
the
in the whole
rigorously valid
contact
said refers
help to understand
fluid. As
subjects,
close
without
is hardly thinkable
in this connection
genius, there
of the chief
one
involved, in realitythey
to
are
affairs,hence
musician
subject,a material
women
women
these needs
of romantic
to
and
love
painter needs
resultingfrom
as
statements;
are
writer
ing
talk-
ties
complexiing
field relat-
it is
our
The
90
of
occurrence
their
with
Nature
of
features
abnormal
general behavior.
the
of
This
of
is
Genius
the
life is in character
sex
homosexuality
study of the
reasons
is
than
only. Intensive
of the
perhaps one
statisticalfigures;
no
is
an
and
apparent
his
one
biography
reveals that
Let
us
deviation in an altogether
sex
explanationsuggested:a pathological
abnormal
Let us
individual,does not seem
entirelysatisfactory.
look for other
A
classical
of the
because
one
possibleexplanations.
Greeks; it was
is
may
have
be
that
For
women
are
the old
Socrates
Yet
regarded as pathological.
not
certainly
phenomenon.
luckily chosen
general acceptance
of the
man
not
an
key
the
to
understanding
of
it
exceptionalmental powers
adequate spiritual
They
company.
the
around
their interest is often centered
disciplines;
of livingstandards,
practicalaspects of life: in the maintenance
minded
and in the upbringing of children. A philosophically
man,
a true
genius,may find it difficult to exchange his ideas
especially
similar
with
and
woman
from
work
mentalitywill
enough
rather for
who
men
young
constitute
to
youth
of
those of
the
Earl
is
one
of the
of
to
Southampton
always kept
search
larly
particu-
of
dark:
not
only
deflection
All
of that
the assertions
the reader
one
of
that in
the
spiritualcourse.
genius for a highly
to
a
driving motives.
Tommaso
do
reallyconvince
cannot
friendship remains
Michelangelo
to
one,
bodily inclinations.
kinship, this
spiritual
talented
extent
unexpected
had
there it is
best. From
him
satisfy
to
This
and
more
the contrary
he
his teaching career
Socrates
men
are
will
talented young
men
an
step, and perhaps not
toward
spirituality
the
with
conversation
look
receive
to
In
traditional
certain
sonnets,
cases
such
the
as
Cavalieri,or of Shakespeareto
permit
clear
diagnosis.Other
Sex
instances
are
obvious, such
more
laine and
Rimbaud:
Verlaine's
love
the year
There
ties
the
as
were
91
Life
Ver-
friendshipbetween
the
before.
that the
other
may
be
male
body
The
causes.
sculptorsmaintained
Greek
the female.
superiorin beauty to
was
No
concept of beauty
dominates
the natural instincts is led to choose a partner of
over
The
of second
ideal beauty in preferenceto one
rate.
opposite
then
wonder
argument
it
accept
would
as
then
substitute
among
motive
spiritual
remarkable
he
based
on
similar
to
These
A
operative.
sequence
scorn
at
the love
best. The
the female
Greek
Amies:
seen
in Verlaine's
baud,
friend of the poet Rimhomosexuality,an aberration
himself
fullyunderstood feminine
the superlative
appreciationof
of another.
her own,
motivations may
appear
the male
to
of the
feminine
her many
in such instances may
Les
of
woman
of
superiority
of the
convinced
body. She
the mental
genius in whom
be also
may
be
might
that
woman
complex;
since
we
are
concerned
an
this
in his A
matter
la recherche
du
temps
perdu: not
an
sider,
out-
to
basis.
19
AGE
We
have
fellow
his
turn
to
the
various
that
merely
the
in
Youth
The
begins
but
in
easy,
We
and
in
genius
A
not
be
at
23
the
of
obstacles
many
his
not
shall
matter
activity.
the
what
be
sure,
really
child's
more
of this
it is
dream
genius,
true
in
rather
privilege, and
keep
ning,
plan-
to
word,
is it
"
of
form
when
conscious
planning,
to
here
discuss
average
of
phenomenon,
call
would
child
marks.
same
work
his
time, he
has
it is for
most
as
duty,
and
in his future
how
he
begins
torture
is
age,
talk
the
it is
no
it is their
tender
We
be
with
false,apparent
we
The
plain
him
reminding
does
that
any
by
child's age
"planning"
dream,
apart.
also
great.
will
sees
child's
for
great
past
can
associate
"
times, is particularly
There
sense.
we
way
there
in
interest
concentrated
most
scarcely
true
anxiety
and
usual
contemplating
quotation
and
he
the
is
time
same
whole.
several
age
children
All
Chapter
something
the
genius
manner.
know
in
then
must
the
age
the
as
genius's
that
genius's dream
course.
for
humanity
a
at
of
vitallyinfluenced
While
concern,
At
orderly
dream?
and
in
not
nebulous
vague,
not
create.
the
in
not
than
to
period.
sad
are
lives.
our
affects
of
We
genius.
in
We
genius.
to
this part
to
topic is of
constraint, mentioned
least
at
the
age
period
that
at
of
the
sure,
private
run
is the
effective
long
external
he
of
am
to
of
referred
We
women.
bitter,joyous and
only
phases
is
person
and
aging.
person's life,not
to
ways
general biography
sweet
about
the
and
as
topic
mean
of
creatures
discussion
our
talked
to
go
is destined
at
early
an
a
people. The
life,rings
of him,
in
about
his
92
age.
presentiment
admonishing
him
in his
ears.
another, he
duties.
accomplish
to
He
feels
joy
his
life
that
angel's voice,
to
be
In
wary
one
of
sense,
is bewildered
93
Age
The
actions of parents
and
the voices
aggravatedby
is
matter
and
not
hear the
the wishes
consider
angel and
do
inclinations of the
and
young
man
direct
the
realizingthe
not
man,
young
takes some
It usually
portion allotted by nature.
avenues
time, perhaps years, until he finallyleaves those unwanted
add
means
and
to
his
into his
turns
is
There
cultured
a
lucky
occasionally
Mozart
one
was
could
these
be
effects,as may
Educated
Mendelssohn.
and
that bears
its fruit
ponder whether
future
in
and
his work.
be that
and
Besides
there
from
The
are
the
work
is characterized
too
either do
many
seeming
the
not
unfolding
there
is
ripe man
factors,it may
opponents
is
task that is
mentioned
it in
is
lie ahead.
He
opposition from
him,
be
aspirants,and
young
great
cannot
hood
child-
cultured
by serenity.
obstacles
understand
not
excusable;we
other
The
the
both
innate
to
might
mentioned
cases
not
short-sightedparents
him.
to
interesting
whose
critics who
understand
the three
In
asset
an
are
is
to
Goethe
as
during childhood
happinessand serenityof
geniuses did
yet, and
unknown
genius.It
men
parents
particulardirection
man.
upbringing too
wild
of
of those
and
give
certain
case
cultured
environment
such
of the young
common
in the
even
circumstances
under
and
means
no
undeniably beneficial
of such
the childhood
from
seen
by
advantages are
both
time
enviable
an
true
has
man
young
While
and materially.
spiritually
necessary
family,in addition,is
develop
to
understanding and
of
man
young
his development.
recognize his giftsand promote
of these lucky ones; his father did everything
who
parents
he
own.
or
blamed
to
do
not
want
is
rivals
to
altogether,for
distinguishthe real
practicallyunmanageable.
tragic,but only
discussingcharacter
too
human
and
traits. It is the
The
94
Nature
conflict between
eternal
the
of the Genius
old
and
the arrived
young,
the
and
aspiring.
The
genius needs
young
opposition;he does
great
self-confidence
always have
not
it and
to
the
overcome
be shaken
may
in his
development stops
might ask
we
whether
early stage. If
there
geniuseswhose
are
so, it must
be
exceptional.
It actuallyimpliesa contradiction,since a genius who
suddenly
can
hardly be a genius.It is not easy to comprehend
stops to be one
how
the supernaturalgiftwith which
should leave
he is endowed
him,
such
cases
even
if such
and
should
be
cannot
prose
are
to
Africa
went
as
activity
it shows
in
is
exist,they
not
are
mental
or
apparent
my
poet
an
except
healthyman
to
at
that
an
principleat
come-down
The
be
may
on
due
where
came
he
The
Rimbaud.
engaged
to
an
slim
true
such
genius of
output,
both
period.At
in commercial
an
case
in the
his poetry
early age
and
pursuits,
development of
might
comes
the young
abrupt stoppage
We
least,
possible.
genius in the
and
young
pathological
causes,
to
among
doubted; despitehis
poet
derangement. For
call such
an
case,
he
his
but
genius is,
unfortunate
of the word.
sense
of an
more
strugglinggenius faces yet other perils,
He
the direction in
senses
objective,than of a personal nature.
which
the voice tells him to go, but his experience and education
young
lie,of
course,
in the immediate
The
and
unbiased.
pull him
backward.
In
is a conflict between
There
man.
past and
and
value of the
the
earlywork
later years
the
is of
not
brilliancy
genius himself
wonders
displayhis originality.
the temperament
extraordinaryvitality,
surpassedby later
how
of the
he
was
able
to
ones.
In
produce
95
Age
the
poets in particular,
characteristic of youth and reveals unbounded
is of a charm
early work
Theoretical
vitality.
In
early age.
with
is the
With
a
there
contrast,
scientists also
are
it takes years
whom
Such
With
genuine exuberance.
of such
work
when
case
this
thought in mind,
have
we
arrived
at
the middle
age
of
inated
periodis characterized and domby the fact that,often at least,the positionof the man being
settled to a certain degree,he does not need to fightas violentlyas
brilliantwork.
if not
the
in the
most
he is free
and
The
the individual
originality,
follow it without having
to
is now
way
to
fear
lished
estab-
opposition.
with
authority.
there goes a
this gain in authorityand some
With
peace of mind
loss,that of youthfulimpetuosity.It is interestingto study this
change in lyricpoets. While the early work is mainly of love, the
of later years become
the poems
natural subjectof a young
man,
and the
dealing often with nature
settled,more
sophisticated,
more
in the soul of the poet. A similar change
varied reactions it inspires
is found in the works
of all great men,
only not so obvious. This is
flows abundantly, and
the happiest time in their lives. Inspiration
of the
with the experiencegained through the years, execution
The
is substantial,and the accompanying
easily.
projectscomes
output
the credit and honor,
strain scarcelynoticeable. Whatever
they are received gracefullyand happily,with the knowledge that
only grudgingly, he is not
they are fullydeserved. If credit comes
too
disturbed;he feels with confidence that missing acknowledgment
He
can
now
create
will follow
Those
in later years
later years! For most
at
or
role. A
composer
reduce
and
great
writer
their output.
men
are
badly off.
I talked
about
Some
accept
this in another
The
96
connection
in
Chapter
Nature
of
8. Others
the
Genius
give in
don't
tinue
easily;
they con-
so
their work
There
is
the
course
of years becomes
patterned.Except for the
very much
very great there is the danger of the techniquebecoming somewhat
is found. The late operas of Strauss
if new
stale,even
subjectmatter
are
poor
copies of
early masterpieces.Often
his
if the
this,especially
mention
has
man
critics will
acquired
fame.
not
he
Yet
himself
well.
directions. These
new
remarkable
of Methuselah
of
those
are
the
are
to
and
grow,
could
from
them.
Some
the
mentioned
I have
influence
lyricpoet
of age on
creative
older. He
he grows
as
much
too
not
so, the
serious
world
insisted
on
established
the world
further
work.
in
curious
it
saves
study of
become
verses
is
the
still more
sophisticated,
haps
per-
very
rhymes, and
changes
To
dismay
their
tragedy of
had been
a
at
bard
new
man;
this
the
frightening
pace.
genius
No
in their
slumbered
very
appears,
half
Within
with
new
wonder
also
hostility,
budding minds.
that
mentioned
they feel
century
conservatives.
graduallybecome
revolutionaries
threateningthe
techniques,
the
the work
the
but
they who
with
age
to
ing
genius'sold age is the changwho
around
him. When
the ones
they were
young,
changing the world. Slowly, they succeeded, and
Lastly,one
But
an
only
and
as
becoming
originally
buoyant
littlephilosophical
essays
not
even
men:
on
few.
stay young
even
this
admire
aspect of ridicule.
an
serious
we
developing
Beethoven, in
with
subjectsbefitting
only young
discrepancy arises,and only the timeless grace of
extent
working
continue
harm
not
who
eternally
young;
feature,quite astounding
continue
They
Happiest
ideas and
they had
new
built
hostile toward
earlier,
can
be traced in
20
ILLNESS
This
the
connection
and
bad
of
health.
the
health
bad
is
consider
great
quite
not
It
in the
achievements
to
answer
of that
of
these
that
guessed,
the
what
on
we
not
other
will
big country
large
that,
as
directly,let
health,
the
or
concern,
posterity.
in
that, if the
thinking mainly
were
we
result,
remark
us
and
have
duration,
for
working
if he
much
achieve
not
they
relativelyshort
good
obvious,
of
founder
The
us
on
seemed
and
that
and
their
great
fact
very
group,
concern
thrive
men
military leaders,
in mind,
a
is for
other
that, however
out
of
mostly
are
question
our
group.
a
the
the
returns,
world, the
of the
does
this group
passing
hinges
statesmen,
pointed
level of the
the
below
While
Offhand
have
might
answer
selfish benefits
often
and
are
health
you
The
mainly
was
eye
accomplishments
they
also because
achievements?
immediate
with
first involves
businessmen.
their
health
good
certainly fascinating.
of
some
as
on
achievement.
posterity.The
immediate
is
great
simple.
so
is concerned
kind
famous
to
obvious, but,
situation
One
conducive
discussion
and
of medicine
question something
our
more
seems
answer
question
brief
health, meaning
standpoint
the
insert
to
and
genius
From
formulate
might
right place
between
or
the
be
to
appears
is
prime
ter
minis-
handicapped
by
illness.
Let
us
then
of
sense
the
kind
be
record,
Riemann
suffered
their
died
from
he
is
there
sure,
but
word.
have
number
in
been
is
of tuberculosis
chronic
the
general,
engaged
the
group,
Here
In
consider.
we
particularly if
To
the
second
the
to
turn
will
answer
scientist
experimental
great
or
scientists
overwhelming.
not
at
dyspepsia
the
and
98
age
of
insomnia
depend
needs
The
again
good
stricted
re-
on
health,
techniques.
manual
with
the
in
geniuses
poor
health
mathematician
thirty-nine, and
Pascal
general,
Illness
there is
callingof
the
with
sobrietyassociated
certain
99
scientist,
to
genius is no exception.The very greatest are known
have lived quiet,moderate, uneventful
lives,and good health often
such habits.
goes along with
The
a
picture changes radicallyfor artists.Purely statistically,
bad
in the lives of great artist;
of illness is found
large incidence
health is quitefrequent in that group, at least it has been up to the
in the
this situation is going to be modified
present. Whether
future, is uncertain.
Great artistic genius and illness do not
necessarilygo together;
the
and
should
statement
my
there
were
not
besides
health
in excellent
many
in that way.
misunderstood
be
the
many
In
fact,
in
poor
health.
To
begin with,
justas
in
artist does
an
nocturnal, turbulent
other stimulants,sexual
is
sex
of the main
one
conducive
not
natural
they
is
and
characteristic
those
create
da Vinci
first may
of
outlook
own
is
sick
genius is of
has
man
not
again
at
find
we
romantic
the
exceptions: in
leavingperiodsof
will
with
might
repose
have
and
stamp
which
flects
re-
generallyvalid,
not
typicalexample, Leonardo
perhaps Saint-Saens.
outlook
is wild
on
life.
troubled
naturally
harmonize
called classical:
be
serene
life.While
on
verified. Goethe
the man's
tumultuous, again reflecting
itself only
iron
of illness is
geniusesin good
between
would
Here
difference
serious,dignifiedwork
In contrast,
this is
All
artist's inspiration.
an
health. The
in bad
Such
of
sources
to
the creator's
and
was
often
an
irregular,
operatingrooms,
life,abuse of nicotine, alcohol and
in a sense
a natural
ment
accompaniare
pointed out in the previouschapter,
consequence.
There
health
excesses
artist'slife.As
an
of
way
tist;
scien-
the work
with
connected
regulatedlifeis automatically
laboratories and
libraries,
of
life of
not
serenityof the
some
cases
might have
classical artist.
illness manifested
been
intermittent,
conquered
his
There
bodily sufferings.
is
Nature
The
100
infinite
of the Genius
of material
medical
for the
psychologist.
in fact,
The examples I wish to quote might not be new
to you;
Yet they often haunt me
sufferers
they are partly well known.
as
little to the weird
a
surrounding the
contributing not
mystery
of genius.The impressionthat bad health lent
problem of the man
achieve what
these men
be
to
to
a helping hand
they did cannot
suppressed.
in
In the past tuberculosis
has been
frequently encountered
Of course,
its generalincidence was
so
geniuses.
great that is is not
in
the great. I am
of its victims among
not
surprisingto find many
whether
its occurrence
possession of statistical figuresto show
the same
the great was
that in the mediocre
or
as
larger.
among
mention
Tuberculosis
has been called the poets' illness. Let me
as
Keats, Schiller and Moliere
examples. Among musicians Chopin
student
is
as
well
well-known
much
less
case.
whether
tuberculosis;
there will be
the
will reduce
this circumstance
be seen.
of great poets and musicians, remains
to
of the illnesses
the situation is similar,it being one
syphilis
number
With
Heine
in the decrease.
Proust
suffered
caused
his
condition
a
the
as
and
from
earlydeath.
may
Schubert
serious
From
advanced
trouble
autopsy
of
attacks
recurrent
which
organic illnesses
other
who
Mendelssohn,
the disease.
bronchiale
of asthma
case
among
mentioned"
be
afflicted with
were
afflicted
was
of Beethoven
suffered from
heart
revealed
chronic
on
giddiness.Dostoyevsky
ear
was
epileptic.
alcoholism
Chronic
been
have
must
frequent condition
of
that it promotes
be assumed
geniuses in the past, and, if it can
feel reassured that geniuses will not
be
creative activity,
we
may
altogetherextinct in the future. Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, van Gogh
and
a
Toulouse-Lautrec
belong
to
was
hashish-smoker.
These
are
only
excerpts
from
genius.Is there
the former
activity,
also
have
long list.We
of illness
possibleincreased incidence
of the
owing
to
causalitybetween
promoting
hinted
at
the
the way
of living
illness and creative
is,of
course,
the
Illness
crucial
problem.
I
of the
the solution
One
before
to
ative.
questionin the affirm-
the
answer
abnormal
species,
to
that such
in the
not
higher from
the
an
to
question.
been
rather
that
deviation
inclined
am
think of three
can
is
101
individual
specimen of
the standard.
should
show
pointed
ing
surpris-
too
signsof
also other
our
in his excessive
be
cannot
out
mality.
abnor-
but execution
Some
of the work
needs
and
rest
have
to
let the
alternate:
two
provide the
for
calmness
even
are
writing,paintingor composing.
work
in this fashion: the Hungarian chemist Louis
night in
dawn
and
have
not
only
his researches
to
retire
to
necessary
Winkler
his
spent
laboratory at
peacefulsolitude.
A period of illness comes
self-discipline.
out
carry
this
coffeehouse
they
scientists who
There
many
of mind.
collected frame
in
Others
then
do
as
godsend.
The
Not
of
is
resignationwhich
the notion that by
belong
the
and
active
is
a
one
vis
of the factors
of creative
it
activity:
and
cut
off
really
The
102
with
associated
the
to
of
phase
of
the
brain,
their
of
it is
being,
analogy,
substances
field
for
infection
before
an
aria
latter
the
while
idea, the
as
Yet
and
in
necessary
The
idea
is
by
hero
fertile
With
genius.
his
Leverkiihn
to
genial heights
to
of
his
creative
genius.
good
The
start.
scientist.
or
in
not
to
the
when
mist
plan
single
difficulties
no
his mind:
to
semicon-
literary
strains
of
the
the
crisis
aria;
comes,
remains.
toxic
between
be
It is
easy.
animals
use
is destined
coming
has
actually
with
During
composed
not
acute
composing
engaged,
relation
studies,
biochemistry
regarding
blue
work,
the
writer
of
period
easily, he
alternates
activity will
other
many
through
next
from
has
come
into
concerning
for
of
soaring
he
thus
While
evaporates
it is certain"
problem
be
so
By
quite generally
busily engaged
be
to
seems
flashes
germ
Experiments
illnesses
it
of
although
idea
work.
Think
may
imagination,
sudden
scientific
alcohol.
of
his
originate
may
man
melodies.
inventing
sciously, a
the
our
in
his
know
created
origin. This
exposes
explain
to
fever.
by
unrest
his
in
Mann
ideas
inspired
feverish
bar
or
Thomas
We
Hoffmann
exerted
problem
human
collapse.
accompanied
illness
the
merely
average
influence
toxic
is
genius.
and
hormonal
or
into
order
in
final
his
Generally,
the
research
the
Poe
as
probably
is
bacterial
perspicacity,
luetic
the
under
of
future
such
writers
influence
similar
toxic
wonted
work
their
with
first
the
during
the
in
lants
stimu-
as
stimulation
dreams
different
be
to
fantastic
that
of
much
likely
this
act
to
narcotics
of
result
wild
and
excitation
quite
certain
for
the
While
known
are
other
and
alcohol
do
as
action.
nature
which
substances
toxic
Genius
of the
Nature
of
to
scarcely
for
solve
very
effects
sick
the
this
in
ble,
possi-
purpose.
particular
genius
might
21
INSANITY
There
is
deserves
particular subject
consideration.
is
It
the
first notion
exist
might
certain
of
his
geniuses. Certain,
strike
who
one
any
excessively
odd.
reads
Not
they
are
eccentric.
how
the
author
mention
there
that
could
the
possess
paintings, the
of
imagination
beasts
these
in
more
observer:
in
than
bizarre
of
independently
lunacy.
positions, shown
of
some
the
literary products
writings of Nietzsche,
fiction,of
the
he
A.
or
sane
but
These
to
E.
Poe,
In
not.
are
at
instances
indicate
insanity, otherwise
is able
to
genuinely
take
to
bad,
wonders
of
many
Guernica,
modern
that
to
art,
impresses
beings,
matic
enig-
impression
an
by
the
as
the
the
way,
of
in
triptych, The
their
impressions
Morgenstern
time
close
that
the
it could
not
produce
103
to
works
from
are
being
bears
were
infrequent,
not
only
abound
in
crazy.
explained
of
fantastic
originators
not
genius
be
reader; studying
example
an
whether
such
poetry
same
in
similarly impress
or,
are
Bosch.
of Christian
the
such
masters,
wonders
one
delightfulpoems
humor,
old
must
or
performing
conclusion,
same
of Lust, by Hieronymus
Other
actually
the
to
It
of
implications,resulting,
is led
One
contemplating
Garden
the
few.
incoherent
of
sensual
work
of
the
modernity
mere
the
picture peculiar
opinion of
conglomeration
strange
humans,
and
works
relation
good
think
or
one's
and
One
to
Or
omachia
Minotaur
sheer
kind.
genius
his characters
Micawber!
or
that
improbably
are
Jingle
of
that
such
add,
some
upon
(Lombroso).
past
that
might
the
and
in the
contemplating
or
Dickens
Think
between
observer
reading
quasi-pathological characters
Picasso's
attention
I say,
touched
not
relation
unbiased
an
from
stems
have
we
some
by
what
relation
means
distinctlyabnormal
The
104
character.
imply
The
word
Nature
relation
the
Genius
in this connection
abnormal
simple deviation
of
from
normality,but
does
rather
only
not
intimate
an
the
such
make
ourselves
with
That
to
as
biographiesand
difference
he
in the
is destined
to
have
ones
content
to
letters.
direction
as
far
genius is possessedby
the
to
express;
of
schizophrenic features.
assume
ideas
less fortunate
observations, we
develop and
abnormality
can
go
his mind
is often
note
To
at
to
receive
common
him
relaxes,and is free
his mind
be times when
may
such
the
extreme
difference
The
reason
picture,and
loses
it does
its control.
not
One
degenerateto
might say, it
the
is
in
detachment
reasonable
more
from
the
outside
make
full
use
if allowance
world.
is made
for
his
No
to
of the
if he
ability
were
closelywatch-
The
106
them
certain
The
Nature
traits of
rudimentary
close
relation
the
of
Genius
genius such
as
have
we
cussed.
dis-
between
can
found.
the
establishing
In
farther. Here
relations
tread
we
on
refer
lies. We
this
to
up
be
to
occurrence
others.
If
the
the
to
are
and
relation
expect such an
geniuses than among
further
turbance
dis-
might
causes
case.
seem
of work,
turbance
dis-
should
realistic,
one
some
type
tell where
if the
frequent among
is schizophrenic,then
other possiblemetabolic
known:
character
While
looked
considered
not
upon
which
we
life and
others
not
are
obvious, but
less instructive.
not
as
more
is
only
of mental
occurrence
Examples
man's
point
and
statisticaldata could
the actual
step
one
go
constitution
during
lead
can
historyof geniuses.Indeed,
in the life
surmised
with
to
one
dangerous ground,
more
combined
rigorousanalysis,
the truth
mentioned,
more
as
less
or
major crime
concerned
are
sign of
committed
The
There
disposition.
insane
justifyit
with.
insanity,suicide
generally as
in
even
or
normal
incurable
are
motives
individual,such
disease. It is
causes
be
may
not
these
genius
are
position
mostly frustration,serious disappointment or an overexalted disnot
that, judged calmly and objectively,would
causes
justifythe act. It is correct, therefore,to consider these cases
under the generalheading of insanity.
Purelymedically,I would
say, the situation is
for
angle
no
what
is
not
yet clarified"
perfectlyclear
case
of
Otto
Weininger
nearly tautological,
From
practical
a
statement
in medicine?
improvement
The
it
was
must
be
is
the
possiblejustifies
in
mentioned
state
of
ment.
derange-
in another
con-
Insanity
the
nection:
bad
reviews
Kleist
stringentreason.
did
of
receive
not
the
insanity.There
Such
Let
us
situations
to
turn
now
Byron
degree that
by
for
some
others
did
The
disposal.
rather
an
carried
him
compelling that
to
justifyingour
death.
temperament.
when
away;
writing
in
againstreligion,or
his
as
divided
the
are
his
amazing
more
ripen
nearly
appears
to
mental
had
always
as
admirer:
greatest
mentality.It
assumption that he
which
language at
Wagner's
personalityshould
for
opponent,
the strongest
use
himself
of
case
such
man
mosity
positivelypossessedby his ani-
writingsagainstWagner
typical
act
an
semi-suicide,the
unrestrained
annihilate
to
in his earlier
essays he shows
a
also
cases.
was
hesitate
not
his work
he
his intention
he
purpose
for:
hoped
in his Antichrist
as
against Wagner,
and
of
emotions
particularcause,
because
are
His
poet.
clinical
to
high literaryvalue,
a
suicide
of
certainlyno
were
out
Nietzsche's
I mentioned
such
committed
too
the fate of
was
received
appreciation he had
are
exposing himself
his work
107
tient,
pa-
been
the
that his
paranoiac type. There exists,by the way, the possibility
his excessive
insanitywas
progressive paralysis,in which
case
be traced to the
emotionality
may
before the outbreak
pallidum much
Chapter
20.
Take
the
study of
his
that
appears
is
be
may
There
was
Gogh.
van
exaggeratedly bold
he
was
is
case
works
I have
not
Schiller. He
of
across;
to
be
and
are
and
led
the
the end
is
tendencies
are
and
the
and
clusion
con-
assumption
of his life.
his
literary
of the
of his work
of his time.
similar in character.
openly rebuffed
was
frustrated
to
certainlyone
this character
the romantic
his time
Treponema
biography
analyze, since
contemporaries which
reason
his
technique we
to
of
illness,
as
explainedin
by
Hyperion
come
appreciated in
had
Both
difficult
more
partlyexplainableby
are
of the
mentally anomalous,
by his insanitytoward
relativelysmall. His
exalted works
most
He
of
be verified
to
Holderlin's
output
case
influence
toxic
this circumstance
by
have
might
finally
at
event
early
an
is
not
was
is
case
genius
of
one
be
to
than
more
of
music
average
the
can
really
appreciate
a
and
advantages
little
about
roam
the
where
that
and
knowledge
that
is
of
are
missing.
forced
genuine
his
The
person
to
it
way
that
let
our
this
All
style.
a
and
music,
eccentric
an
in
matic
enig-
musician.
clearly
illuminates
we
and
his
romantic
which
his
designation
shows
only
tragic
reason
fascinating
mysterious
extravagantly
It
that
the
appreciation
true
drawbacks.
subject
and
diagnosis
post-mortem
is
the
for
deserves
work
statement
his
whom
with
Kreisleriana
cycle
no
disease.
he
His
which
disposition
precisely
weird
has
venture
like
his
lover
might
sounds
others.
Hoffmann's
one
and
composers
ways;
understanding
the
geniuses
expected,
many
many
Genius
paranoiac
in
out
those
Among
the
of
possibly
broke
age
instructive.
in
his
aggravated
Schumann
its
Nature
The
108
is:
we
it
has
know
tion
imagina-
IV
GENIUS
AND
HUMAN
SPECIES
22
While
there
are
few
off
From
we
Certain
unit,
The
first
I surmise
been
no
women
as
in
whom
section
human
relation
species.
the
to
logical
bio-
follow.
to
in that
smile,
illustrious
little
are
group?
indignantly, or
entirely
not
were
let
added.
are
known:
Creative
music
to
productive
those, who,
have
survived.
has
de
correct,
Painting
let
is
us
only
reputation
experimental
is
field
for
like
corresponding
been
or
mention
field
Cassatt
Mary
exceptionally
I have
science
heard
finds
111
of
males,
Sappho
which
in
tried
found
be
called
in
was
few
and
Kathe
past
of
women
Kollwitz.
the
women:
relatively many
the
is
Browning
very
is Chaminade.
pursue
mentioned
Elizabeth
by
We
number
writers
Sand,
but
are
may
whose
and
women
George
have
is literature.
women
poetess
there
women,
criteria
definition,
our
The
Sevigne,
that
say
main
our
profession,
money-making
before; Marquise
be
of
us
highly gifted
and
many
according
most
work
with
will
famous
one
this
you
found
statement
many
clearly disregard
note
present
to
the
in
subjects
are
readers
who,
and
geniuses. The
may
the
question why
if my
as
past
few
extremely
whose
genius and
dispel misunderstanding,
to
the
writing
heading
easily
not
are
to
will
fair.
order
united,
mind
going
are
rough
call it
form
women
not
in
we
now,
up
genius, which
in
considering genius
is the
topic
disapprovingly,
In
have
these
take
of
work
we
give
might
should
man,
some
least
To
we
is it that
How
example
when
mind
to
first
better
aspects,
comes
matters
We
the
The
mean.
discussion,
of
man
of
problem
the
what
see
our
at
the
the
left open.
matters
story.
our
specified.
men.
discussed
tackling
round
will
have
we
before
of
GENIUS
WOMAN
Science,
women
only
ticularly
parcul-
The
112
tivators,and
here
ner.
As
are,
of course,
is inevitable:
in them
more
some
can
find reasons?
we
recent
it has also
itself,
later in
suited
not
problem is not
Chapter
This
find
female
then
be
shall
If you
only
united
question
of interest
be
to
tioned
men-
different
the
The
of
lack
of
dimensions
the
compared
gists
anthropolo-
women,
occasion, and
on
be
to
appears
male
and
geniuses would
female
It is hard
we
in
brains.
and
cranes
is heard
statement
it verified
have
to
24.
one
pointing out the possible reasons,
of the mental faculties of
supposed inferiority
men.
conclusion
genius.The
In
with
The
far-reachingconsequences
more
classical
Lise Meit-
ones
be added.
reason
The
the
ones
impressive,although there
too
that could
for
are
not
great
the
among
list is
names
women
the
among
is then,
in
of the Genius
Curie, and
see, the
can
you
have
we
of Madame
example
Nature
to
along with
go
the
in that
statement
see,
around
look
among
generality.As
but
acquaintance,you will
your
generally.
not
observe
not
As a matter
compared with men.
of fact, a poor
judgment, an accordinglygreat credulity,and a
lack of understanding for cultural values is typicalfor the majority
a
in
intelligence
lesser
of
between
geniuses.This
have
Women
They
men.
before
food
to
men
make
they
like
not
have
to
an
in
play and
male
of fe-
be
general are
They
the
not
living.Still,men
more
alone
connection.
only
women
than
eminently practical,more
so
for the real needs of life,
mentioned
as was
to
eye
geniuses among
others.
clothing,both for
and
enough,
have
another
in
that
say
known
are
of
ate,
only moder-
not
circumstance
for
look
to
be
exists,it could
lesser number
It could
men.
little
women.
the difference
might explain a
than among
We
and
men
granted that
and
people. Moreover,
difference
Even
as
women
take
husband
of the
care
and
the
family.I
practical;
they have
are
more
house, of
to
do
not
be in order
leisurely,and
curiously
in their
are
closer
to
children
in that
sense
than
women.
Nature
The
114
the
woman,
mother
true
of creative
kind
the
In
remained
of
course
unchanged.
of
all
countries
this country
by outside
earn
money
probably not
questionwhether
the
has
such
Leaving
not,
or
of
duties
the
up
in educational
the
tion
frac-
utopisticidea of having
state,
while
children
other
and
work,
the
in
tered
highly sheltoday about one
her
situation is desirable
not
gradually
too
will increase
has
attitude
women
from
her, at least partially,
women
partake
history that
emancipation of
The
are
alone the
women
human
earlier times. In
positionof
third
such
in this attitude of
ponder possiblechanges
to
slowly removed
and
mentalityincompatiblewith
activity.
It is of interest
woman.
has
of the Genius
are
future.
centers
that
greater
this
to
matter.
the situation
Returning to
be
may
It
a
listed
was
permanence
of the
Clearly a
that
satisfy
men
possiblylarge safetyfactor
family.A
one
one
as
why
reasons
whose
woman
men
some
for
permanence.
She
other
in
ways
and
with
her
make
it
means
and
her
man
the
to
husband's
to
more
look
direct
her
more.
or
forth
concerning desire
it necessary
immortality.Her
and
quite obvious
preservingher
of the
for
children
find
be
might
duty it is to bring
raise children
not
by raising
five children
crave
and
will
need
in this respect
immediate
more
thought
for
part of this essay, the urge
of the basic criterions of a genius.
majorityof
was
second
the
In
added.
today,another
it is found
as
that
for
nection
connection
con-
successful
for posterity.
One
qualities
thus
nonexistent
in her.
have
proof of
scientists
en
womGeorge Sand. Eminent
nearly always plain or have definitelymasculine
that
are
masculinity,as
in
Woman
features.
their
They
are
abnormal,
connection
here
ways.
on
with
borderline
half
actually
sexual
primary
the
genius,
fields,
it
115
best
is
with
producing
be
to
of
sense
these
and
physically
men,
happening
organs
in
Genius
the
female.
word
unusual
If
is
Nature
women.
types,
mentally,
unusual
the
pression,
ex-
justified
is
in
playing
in
two
23
APPARENT
discussed
Having
children,
marks.
and
must
Many
the
with
pointed
have
learn
enough
early
of
the
at
of
if
sure,
technical
ability
be
originalitycannot
thing stands
lose
not
In
is the
most
good
have
jump
the
two,
true
and
and
is
one
in
call
cases
some
the
that, while
shows
can
more
or
heard,
saw
to
be
perceived;
child
true
confusion
genius:
should
and
of
smartness,
bring
this is
apparent
by
out
no
the
to
what
parents
difference
we
often
The
main
generally
smart,
easy.
is
between
116
genius.
means
prodigy
in
found
not
close
wonder
child
prodigy?
quickly, have
learn
remarkably
smart
child
apparent
genius. No
a
boys
production. We
pupils,
come
true
scrutiny
closer
the
young
creations.
of the
avoid
the
degree
abilities
conclusions
to
of
excellent
are
for
to
experience
have
childhood
it is
an
parents.
many
unusual
an
These
just outlined
so
yet
at
child, and,
they
feature
marvel
perception, and
average
what
these
want
we
characteristic
They
memory.
difference
the
chief
children.
Only
production,
lot of
the
it is
cases
other
essential
as
disappointment,
What
out
his
imitative
in
expected
and
the
reproduce
to
they
was
people
written
These
works
It
cannot
poets
instance.
from
amaze
other
require the
to
seem
what
one
great
observation
distinguish them
memory
however
in
Perspicacity
once.
good
One
that
love, for
of
realm
of
verses
before.
childhood.
poetry,
course,
only
Some
reflections
the
in
Especially
miracle.
contain
age
adults, in
are,
toil.
by
prodigies,
rapidity and
instinct
by
grasp
quotation
mentioned
been
their
in
productions
out
to
their
in
child
true
on
of
discussion
prodigies
astounding
an
the
to
child
touch
must
we
with
geniuses develop
world
turn
now
certain
repeat
PRODIGY
specific,of
more
discussing these,
In
so
we
women,
be
to
or,
CHILD
latter
Child
Apparent
does
need
not
be
to
Prodigy
he is often
smart,
117
indifferent
an
pupil.A
boy
has a
particularlygood on standard examinations, who
high intelligencequotient,and is good at spellingis quite likely
only an apparent prodigy. They are fine specimens of boys, and it
but just
would
be wrong
look at them
to
or
derisively,
ironically
who
as
is
is it
wrong
than
geniuses.By this
call them
to
good, since
is then
painful disappointment
harm
more
is done
unavoidable.
the
contrast,
true
will
write
that
group
might fade
special ability
with
asked
goaded, he
or
Even
essays.
during
the
does
not
early years
the
much,
mean
profession.A
than
predictionis
diagnosis
sure
the
come,
quality of the
paintingor writing
average
talent for
that it indicates
except
correct
and
years,
write
or
may
difficult. It is the
be
may
music
compose
disappointment
that
work
among
poetry,
particular
scarcelypossible,the
difficulty
kind
in the analogous problem concerning
as
being of the same
best criterion
is insistent
outstanding activities of adults. The
creative activity,coming spontaneously, even
against the wishes
of parents
The
teachers.
or
of
number
considerable;it
talented
If he
new.
fellow
the
are
is
is
of the
he
more
are
short
this
a
will
close
our
and
mentally indifferent,
no
is
not
good
cluttered
consideration
family and
use
for
society.They
some
are
of this
up
what
are
for
holds
same
we
love
children;
But
worse.
They
fertility.
with
unimportant
call duties
we
free
if
and
their dullness,
to
eyes
details,they have
and
open
cannot
we
percentage
ourselves, to
very
there
the causes
for
are
eighteen.What
it is certainly
a
phenomenon, and the more
creatures,
majority
highly
many
within
insignificance
is
ones
is moderate,
by heredity dull, his receptivity
is made
little use
our
is
how
note
to
true
to
children, the
loves
child's mind
so
thirteen
For
phenomenon?
into
with
compared
cases
indeed,
interesting,
dwindle
children
person
is
apparent
to
follow
to
their
The
118
Nature
of the Genius
natural
their inborn
inclinations,
Where
this desire
meets
the
exceptionalgifts,
that
form
Viewed
of
longer
fertile brain,
result
if
even
fail to present
cannot
brightnessand
from
curiosity,their desire
blessed with
not
itselfin
have
acuity we
been
precisely
picturing.
this
appear
not
world"
do what
cannot
succeed
he wants,
in
but
make
not
with
much
customary
do
must
the
what
then
sense"
is best
to
will
soon
but,
alas,life is
add
that
to
give
lose
all interest
in his science?
such
It
stayingin
outlook
an
was
up
of mathematics,
he insist on
giftedyouth, with
our
he
bids him
to
wants
magic combinations,
mathematics, then it
money.
all
soon?
the world
in their
and
any
does
this
succeed
learn.
to
under
Do
ahead,
beautiful
the
toy,
play.
If his interest is writing,poetry or prose, and he appears in the
takes care
eyes of his hopeful parents a budding genius,life soon
to destroyany
higherinterest by showing him that with such fancy
a
leaningshe will not go very far. He accordinglybecomes
not
reporter.
It is this call for
an
being of these
human
average
him
distinguishes
call but
apparent
call for
from
ahead
goes
prodigy
that of the
conformity,for
the
world.
he
one;
in the direction
Should
conformity,he
being, but
true
course
life,that makes
geniuses.This
heed
not
that
above
make
of
child
apparent
is
missing and
would
of
would
the needs
still not
average
become
follows
disobey the
reason,
better than
he
human
genius,not
makes
correct.
basically
about
structure
it. In
of
sad
story, yet
It is
development
natural process
spite of this,we
our
the
social life
too
and
not
we
much
picturedis
can
be done
blame.
to
not
talk of
to
it is worth.
the
evolution
species.Some
the
of
has
it. Nobody
theory, although they wrong
the singlemolecules
constitutinga gas, yet no scientist
dislike that
people
observed
has
going
are
tion
explana-
alternative,therefore, another
an
is offered:
We
As
119
the
of
slightestdoubt
in this
of similar evidence
view
being overwhelming. In
evidence
indirect
field,one
cannot
We
The
geneticists.
principle
that the development of the individual, ontogenesis,is a
states
of the evolution
of the species,phylogenesis.
version
condensed
is
recentlybeing questioned by
individual,startingfrom
The
the
which
the
fertilized ovum,
permit
speciesto which
When
when
development
answered
be
believe, cannot
with
varies
are
concerned
Let
us
homo
and
race
belongs
then
say
that
less
or
In
age
period of
about
child
Up
seventeen.
in
that
age
which
we
development.
of the
member
time
the
at
with
individual
trulya
to
species
then
he
is
ancestors.
numerous
young
childhood
This, I
end?
individual
the
of
climate. His
of
of
exactly;approximately
this
stages
belongs.
becomes
of his
one
comparing
to
man
sapiens at the
more
variety of
it becomes
man
through
passes
the individual
the
does
ically,
specif-
reproductive cells,more
the
roughly reproduce
to
us
some
up
the age
to
of
perhaps five
with
show
the
comparison which, carefullyexecuted, may
latter to be superior"we
are
merely giving popular expression
scientific principle.
a
to
Although externallydifferent,he at that
has retained
of those
characteristics,mostly mental
age
many
an
ape"
of
animals, in reality,
rather
of certain
and
of the
least in man,
this,a
young
ancestors.
merely
carrying
consider
this
In
so
reasoning to
brain
development
is particularly
it appears.
individual
between
than
more
separatingmental
the
presentlyexistingkinds,
Mental
immediate
we
to
not
ancestors.
common
at
trailing,
According
course,
from
separatelyfrom
its ultimate
the
ages
of six
physically,of
our
physical features,
other
consequence,
we
organs.
arrive
In
at
The
120
Nature
of
the Genius
have
seemingly contradictoryresult. We
with mental
in
often endowed
are
capacities
found
those of adults. It
to
capacity
now
children
our
that
appears
What
develop into
as
it does
The
it
know
we
manner,
yieldinginstead
that
reason
from
tributes
at-
some
premises.
our
ancestors
our
species,a homo
became
to
sapientis-
frustrated
species of
the
mental
species.Unquestionably
our
today. Interpretingour
sound
not
whose
capacityin
latent
development, however,
of time,
course
superior
ways
possessionof
it follows
eminent
intellectually
an
simus, which
is
course,
various
ancestors
of
average
paradoxical,yet
of
is meant,
in
were
represent
our
that children
in
the
mediocre
gence
intelli-
conclusion
in this
unacceptable.
so
that
took
evolution
particulardirection
lies
for the
Just as genius lacks practicalsense
necessities of dailylife,
an
idealistic,
ancestors
our
similarlyamong
successful in the
have been
could
not
fantastic,dreamy mind
struggle for existence. The mind of a variant that, although of a
in
natural
lower
of
selection.
life,such
the
and
well
was
quality,
as
opposite sex,
face the
to
necessities
common
selection.
sexual
There
adapted
is
in favor
anthropologicalevidence
bit of
of this idea.
different
which
produced
australopithecus
pithecanthropusand meganthropus. The
subspecies,
of these
two
Our
earliest
ancestor
was
was
huntsman
two
first
and
This
in
an
involved
that in the
was
essence
brother
is
long
meganthropus.Now,
was
to
the
that word
use
of the
more
extinction
altogetherwrong.
sapiens might
Had
deserve
with
facets;its result
pithecanthropus displacedits
process
all
run
have
we
spiritual
type
for
of
our
was
to
genius
in
of the
our
is that meganthropus
assume
if
two"
and
early ancestors"
phylogeny
we
are
our
tion
explana-
may
not
mitted
per-
be
many
sacrificed in
order
to
in the
brain
give way
to
of
a
one
of
truly
it
our
vital
24
GENIUS
Part
IV
between
of
our
the
difference
forms
future
the
main
the
with
species, and
of
problem
variety
resemble
might
VARIETY
know
we
between
elucidation
entire
that
The
sometime
in
variety that
from
him
of
discussion.
being,
into
come
as
the
the
connections
difference
possibilitythat
any
could
genius
possible
species. The
then, is there
new
human
of
the
is
question
the
the
rest
FUTURE
is concerned
essay
genius and
genius and
next
AS
present
our
records?
There
in
is
which
connection
mention
and
ancestors,
become
by
the
we
are
rare
the
the
course
of
of
established
survival, unselfishness
back
this
to
single feature
we
not
moment
Are
genial
because
only
then
variety of
the
species by
sons
also
great,
were
are
well
known:
but
be
could
to
for
that
the
What
would
existing
eugenics.
to
of
sake
call, desire
We
shall
irksome
but
let
come
because
us
for
simplicity only
feature
which
for
we
the
one
choose,
as
This
possible
at
is the
all
to
breeding. There
Bach's
have
response
is immaterial
the
our
qualities
genius.
bred
field of
the
comprehend,
to
inherited?
is it
called
combination,
consider
craftsmanship
Such
clearly than
tried
we
of
of
chapter,
might
selection.
variety
to
easy
last
belongs
genius. It
features
qualities which
more
of
think
may
potentialitiesof
factors
matter
hence
the
and
irksome
mathematical,
mental
faculties
his main
among
the
phenomenon
a
discourses
our
and
Darwinian
the
question then
II of
Part
subject
latent
is whether
now
this
in certain
appear
originally present
species. This
In
their
occurrence
asking
show
of
some
lost in
of
made
was
nevertheless,
can,
between
number
sons
122
of
were
first crucial
think
are
of
great
question
producing
men
these
is small.
all
gifted, but
whose
The
stances
in-
chiefly
As
Genius
two,
PhilippEmanuel
then
we
Bnieghels, father
seems
be
of
reads
the
about
might
of his
geniuses appears
The
as
for
result of
anemia.
severe
normal,
in
than
realitythey
whether
see
the
among
offspring
according
One
anemic
their parents,
Assuming
of
Since, as
we
now
the anemic
have
with
seen,
gene
gene.
of the
nonanemic
be
of
person
genial features
If it should
be
could
genes.
will be
The
be
find
rest,
hybrids
same
similarly,the
riage
mar-
yielda hybrid.
would
be
purebred and
quarter
majority of
possibleto
be
again the
must
second
lowing
in the folsplitting
Another
genes.
normal
factor,
such
two
offspringwill
will
offspring,
recessive
hybrid,
only seeminglyhealthy,in
Mendelian
representing a
cross
now
in
gene
one
gene
outwardly healthy.
that genial features behave
genius
gifted,the
of
half of the
one
show
are
is
reason
of the many
cells,is in outward
first is termed
who
quarter
carryingonly
healthy,
purebred and
nucleus
us
the
to
certain type of
healthyone, the offspring
example
an
factor. Let
the
carry
manner.
their
as
the
factor. The
be
variety of
shall
estimated
its counterpart,
as
breeding
occurring
be
take
us
located
dominant
finds
son
not
as
an
great man,
this conclusion, one
of
weaker
often
verified.
Let
nonanemic
the second
that is
of
such
factor,actuallya largemolecule,
genes,
manifestation
also
which
will be
If
the few
even
infrequent.The
impossible.We
crossbreeding can
Mendel.
is
in
son
certain factor
for
nearly proverbial;one
prospect
not
conclusion
can
craftsmanship,
as
Judging from
the
but
be
can
chance
findingsof
that
remote
conclusion
our
the
as
merit.
own
further
say
only
The
more.
account
distressingsituation
is
of note;
occurrence
man
123
composers
son,
and
not
the
great
and
son,
would
that
but
examples quoted,
became
son
insignificant
Variety
and Friedemann,
the
have
Future
will
cases
not
recessive,just like
two
such
persuaded
hybrids,
to
marry
The
124
and
of them
quarters
far this
So
seems
involved
an
the
encounter
in many
fact,the
to
unfavorable
purebred
the
anemic
their
on
gifted,it
value
Our
example
of survival
be able
anemia, the
on
anemia, while
severe
resistance
low
to
organism
to
successfully
carry
hybrid, outwardly healthy
The
to
survive.
that the
seen
with
agreement
quarter
one
result
so
far is
the
in
not
that
of children
was
be
met
along the
these far-fetched
Let
one
case
will
matters,
he
discourage
point
difficulties likely
the
out
the reader
is
kindly
on
go
of
attempt
any
not
bored
too
by
reading this
cussion?
dis-
what
see
genius. Some
far; not
so
omitted
as
The
if the number
The
some.
ten
were
independence
in any
occur
of
just as blue
representedby
separate
eight chromosomes,
shapes present
eyes,
genes,
small
in the
blond
located
these
in the
we
features
in
were
may
were
gifted persons.
represented by
are
hair,and
microscopically
cells. Each
really ten,
combination
different genes,
various
In
20.
complication arises if we
give up the notion
singlefeature, and consider the multiplicityof them, representing
us
discussed
have
road.
to
to
between
connection
observed
Chapter
meant
are
resistance of the
our
not
survival.
discussed
genius and illness,
of
purebred individuals;
exhibit the
to
affairs is in
to
to
hybrids
same
will be
that
expected
turn
will
localities,
healthyand
Applying the
than
individuals, due
struggle for
individuals stay
shown
ultimatelydie of
individuals
in certain
malaria
Returning
nonanemic
purebred
one
impossibleprocedure to
varietyof giftedpersons. We
low
to
splitting,
quarter gifted.
low.
are
and
Experience has
perishdue
external
selection
pure
Mendelian
not
resistant
more
latter often
in
by
are
but
first snag.
instances
show
of the Genius
children, would
produce many
three
Nature
an
aquilinenose
to fortyforty-six
visible
of these
granules of
essential factors
As
Genius
is inherited
separately according
different
ten
in
united
be
will be
of
genes
genius
considered
of what
illustration
an
of characteristics,
let
number
of which
what
will be the
is:
answer
one
another
out
from
balls from
the
two
to
bag,
grab
we
is in the
of
result
us
will
producing
again
let
chance
be
for
whites
all
ten
ridiculously small,
one
recessive. If
features
in
third
has been
less than
pulls will
be
mated.
previously esti-
with
since
according
person;
to
our
hybrids marry,
purebred form
in
than
more
normal
such
two
occurring
little
and
black
much
now
less than
are
that
assume
us
geniusesby crossbreeding
hybrid, nongenius,
bag,
The
ones?
of kinds
is
genius
the
chance
much
crossbreed
balls,half
of
white
white, another
strain of
less
raisingthe
balls from
of twenty-seven
out
one
assumption genialfactors
the
two
this information
lightof
Let
the
grab
three
much
are
bag full
three. The
genius.As
expected from
consider
is
bag
breeding
factor.
one
increased
The
produce
one
be
we
of
process
to
the
laws, and
combination
only
us
the
order
can
125
Mendelian
in
must
for such
realized,the chances
we
Variety
to
singleoffspringin
one
Future
million.
is
While
for
they become
plantsor fruit flysuch figuresare not unrealistic,
Theoretically,based on our
discouraging when
applied to man.
of science, eugenics has no
status
present
easy task in producing
a
variety of
new
spite of
In
the
small
the word
probabilityone
has
would
emphasize
is
although difficult,
hence
possible.
we
What
start
would
would
better. The
the women,
in
have
men
we
such
to
that
species,one
our
no
that
be
should
would
Chapter 22,
our
cannot
be
as
of
the
say
geniuses.
plan
is impossible,
in scientific
contradiction
project look
made
consist
predictions.Rather,
that the plan,
analysishas shown
place
in
not
would
with
basic
like in actual
with
several
close
to
execution?
couples,the
more,
the
have
to
with
be
principles,
content,
according
to
the
position
ex-
It is desirable
The
126
that
each
gifted
most
would
would
process
attention
between
injection of
this
In
variety
manner,
be
to
show
for
As
with
of
an
to
remark
Such
subjects
before
the
the
new,
probably
man,
much
as
project
might
least.
would
well
have
as
to
be
take
the
artificial
to
the
place
features
liking
of
the
be
would
man
probably
relation
of
the
to
homo
not
the
abandoning
to
many
many
present
sapiens.
cultivated, sacrifices
pointed
that
out
selection
protected.
selection.
enter,
of
ing
start-
do
which
natural
natural
off.
necessary
suited,
been
well
too
of
level
is well
be
could
animals,
are
than
suitable
even
and
work
It has
made.
all
of
existing species
domesticated
efficiency.We
has
be
women
difference
gradually
might
insignificantin
the
possibility that
the
choice
personal preference,
to
the
outside
outside
of
no
features
project. Personally,
many
not
This
is
attained,
is
women
the
and
the
women,
improvement
of its
selection
some
teristics
charac-
starting generations,
might
working
women
the
working
sexes
on
desired
position today.
for
planning,
men
topic,
a
For
the
in
of
idea
household.
other
eugenic
actually embarking
relish
not
for
two
continual
There
earlier, namely
of
blood
generations,
exhibiting genial
is the
Special
necessary.
ten
variety
This
close
the
be
the
subjects
the
of
purpose
would
definitely favor
would
change
that
number
in
genial incidence
for
made
increasing
ever
this
the
other.
generations.
concentrated.
such
these
each
avoidance
which
more
suitable
finding
refer
we
If
that
For
in
tendency
notwithstanding
men,
the
to
Of
carefully planned
that, if
assume
with
many
persons
many
and
lesser
paid
produced
more
children.
coupled
chosen.
after
might
would
be
to
of
many,
highly gifted
new,
reason
for
partners
become
priori
and
repeated
Genius
number
selected
have
the
of
large
be
be
would
relation
have
couple
Nature
today.
some
has
If so,
Into
of
for
lost
artificial
such
which
25
PSEUDOGENIUS
The
topic
it is in
no
nevertheless,
been,
these
people, and
him
in
1 the
Chapter
In
only
about
the
those
in
borders,
The
the
personal
such
why
mentioned,
of
taste
the
of
exclusion
deserving
the
when
Some
time
not
complete.
us
of
being
take
there
are
the
Delius
or
have
As
be
maintained
that
for
is
the
of the
been
may
they
possessed
127
shed
that
lacked
or
whose
in
in
the
Part
the
with
fully
as
this
on
characteristics
more
were
inventiveness
dered
won-
under
and
upon
limits
matter
V.
For
picture, therefore,
the
who
men
be
discussion
chief
in music,
have
consider
rigorous
not
and
man,
partly
rest
included
they
for
up
features
Chausson
questioned.
first
words
probably disagreed
light will
comes
of
other
be
quent
fre-
more
might
you
whom
additional
inspiration,one
Unquestionably
feature, while
talk
might
It
few
in
others
much
and
been
have
subject
genius
we
say
of
has
name
persons,
The
name.
work
the
Let
certain
clear-cut.
not
are
the
said, odd
was
occur.
are
fluid
Some
others
it
unites
who
are
are
viewer.
such
and
ally
occasion-
that
partial geniuses.
or
was
as
angle,
man
actually
then
us
essentials
few
incomplete
termed
be
which
do
Let
ones.
unified
missing, and
are
combinations
incomplete
complete
as
However,
present
are
gifted
irony.
described
was
types
with
mixed
features
some
two
less odd
or
discussed.
features
these
than
genius
from
treated
more
and
partialgeniuses
to
be
pity
our
or
one
that
added
other,
which
in
combinations
be
well
true
all essential
which
could
arouse
even
may
reference
certain
also
including
much
has
chapter. There
foregoing
of the
place, although
in this
fits well
next
continuation
way
discuss
to
are
we
this
of
craftsmanship
it
genius.
particular
less present.
composition,
is
can
ples
Examcannot
hardly
are
The
128
Nature
of the Genius
those
are
These
who
are
another
lack
who
men
in
crucial
selfishness.
uncharacteristic,
sacrifice their
genius
feature,desire
sense
for money;
they lack idealism and mostlythat other
for permanence.
that their work
They usually know
ephemeral
fame
is
This
nature.
knowledge
important
more
generations.They
them
to
Another
These
have
men
by their
beyond the
the great.
among
portraitists,
belong
The
importance
of the
minors.
They
comprise
books
a
in
making
some
we
be
in
involved
fill our
the
science
which
very
clusively
nearly ex-
did
reach
not
minor
highly valued
many
they
cialized
spe-
became
restricted range,
experts
such
as
be overlooked.
not
be
vast
badly off
of
structure
libraries,
paint the
institutes. If
art
Because
out
with-
knowledge,
that
canvases
it
today. Thus,
differentiations which
unjust to
may
appear
it is for clarityof the concepts
contemptuous;
way
no
no
that
other end
essential features
supply the
that
certain
are
the
are
known
genius,humanity would
good part of
there would
in certain
their view
since
this group.
of this class should
true
the
of
writers
universality.
to
scarcityof
the
belong
subjects in
specialized
Painters
is
lacking
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are
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pseudogenius.
these
people
persons
with
are
one
sufficient for
in
or
them
The
130
find
we
class
with
oustanding
Nature
clerks
of the Genius
and
mechanics
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gerated
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to
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genius,alas,unrecognized
The
type
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Pseudo
missed
The
of
offers
the characteristics of
that
131
tragicomicaland
Moliere
genius
force, he
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man,
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without
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of the other
some
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precisely
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such
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or
weak;
expected.
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connection
ceives
con-
with
The
132
the
times.
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wanders
He
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genius,while
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their
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pity
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for
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them
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often
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be
genius
133
considered
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contented
be
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of
place.
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for
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humanity
lot,
and
as
to
WORKS
OF
GENIUS
The
138
the
oriented
differently
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on
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it is
probably
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in listeners
work
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not
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Hamlet
The
or
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on
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in its execution
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to
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literarygourmets
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of Venice, with
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of
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Hence,
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in
meant
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necessary
depth. This
some
of people may
that group
the more
educated, not
to
sense:
shared
not
have
not
work
appreciate a
derogatory
139
the
to
community.
The
fact,
demands
stands that for the satisfaction of its spiritual
nevertheless,
of a simple
that group
does not
need masterpieces.It needs works
exactly the
know
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men
by professional
of the group
and produce accordingly.
quality,produced
demand
A
humorous
poignant and
worthless or
appreciationof the plain people stamps a work
valuable, is found in Wagner's Meister singer.Beckmesser, representing
the judgment
the classical or pedantic standpoint,scorns
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of the
people, Hans
who
have
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values it
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on
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and
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with
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contradictory.
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into
of the
previous case
himself
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slightlybetter product.
necessity be
this argument
appear
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diaries interest
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merit.
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of diffusion: that
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appreciationoften grades
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ment
stateas
particularwork
the general appeal of a masterpiece to persons of varied
on
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of art, and
which
still better
An
to
interest
article for
quality.You
can
leads.
of literature contain
names
in
of many
authors known
which
the textbook
was
a
a
The
140
excluded
not
dictionaries of their
and
texts
the
beyond
country's
in
our
ponding
corres-
is
into
Looking
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question,
without
fame,
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in
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patriotism;it is an indication
national
their mediocrity, achieved
to
found
are
pictures
from
statesmen
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to
due
had
we
of
number
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discussions,we
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institutes contain
written;similarlyart
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such
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to
masterpiece is universality
people anywhere irrespectiveof their
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science, which
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character.
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so
these works,
in order
so
touches
crumble
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an
boundaries
national
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in its own
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so
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surprisingthen that
Copperfieldmust
gladly hear
must
that
overwhelming
typicallyEnglish,so
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determined
deeply human,
so
nationals
it differs from
which
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others.
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our
matters
basicallyinternational,but is
not
be considered
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appreciatedin
A
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tradition. It is
and
education
he
or
foreigners,
and substantial
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philosophy and
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work
main
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too
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lies in
in
When
that in economic
find
surprisedto
considering the
stringentone,
characters.
in national
difference
is
in
that Westerners
viewing them,
power
of the
yet
do
they
masterpieces
This
science, as mentioned.
in
of
of translation
than
add
this irksome
in prose.
literature
in
obstruction
the
to
weight somewhat.
found
implicationsare
greatest
poetry
In
its
lessen
transmission
penetrationof
criterion of
of poems,
Translation
Unquestionably its
where
the problems
of national
of translation is
matter
141
Appeal
International
restrictive
more
even
In
boundaries.
into
notably lyricpoems,
Translations of Heine's
impossibility.
into another
love poems
language, conveying all the beauty and
do not
exist. A masterpiece of poetry
of the original,
sentiments
must
fightagainstgreat odds in penetratingthe barriers between
countries. As a result,although known
abroad, they are not much
the
read
can
or
by people who
read, except by professionals,
That holds for the masterpiecesof all countries: the poetry
original.
is known,
and Baudelaire
of Heine, Keats
although little read in
on
foreign countries.
Prose
out
the
can
do
is
more
of the
nuances
language of Dostoyevsky's
the
justiceto
also formidable.
originalare
translation
No
are
proof of their
againststrangeness
hears
sometimes
One
well
as
art
is
not
as
poor
The
novels.
fact
is a double
resistance
rendition.
countries
as
much
to
the
as
that
be hailed
his best
loudly,had
novels, The
reading in
the
he been
German
Landowner,
Neuo
Englishwriter. One of
makes
a
truly delightful
or
in existingtranslations,
however,
original;
it has lost
its universal
such
hard
be admitted
that
appeal might gain, and it must
be
translator,mastering both Hungarian and English,would
to
whereas
translations,
the
littleeffect has
every
strikingly difficult
partly in
the
effort
Doctor
language of Luther,
ever
was
been
made
made
to
Faustus, for
as
to
render
effect
into
perfect
English
instance, written
perfectlyas possible.On
the
The
142
other
hand,
without
the
only
therefore,
there
to
is
no
appreciation
all
enjoy
Finally,
the
world
by
Acceptance
mention
Thomas
Tunnel.
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educated
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The
is
world
of
word
the
caution
itself
in
as
masterpiece.
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for
small
instance,
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is,
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its
regard
painters
of
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As
count.
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with
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by
the
work
masterpiece.
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example
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Bernhard
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acceptance,
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painting,
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Buddenbrooks
and
Dutch
great
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character
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Where
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me
Kellermann's
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Only
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the
27
the
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At
and
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out
nature.
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as
bear
our
in
that
witness
be
has
testimony
limitation
it.
have
of
our
regard
could
to
already
prediction
143
to
been
past
not
still
replicas of
deposited
future
the
been
filled;
ful-
better
cultures
several
on
be
confident,
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wrought
whether
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of entire
in the
Compressed
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and
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Our
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masterpiece
to
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survived
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Indeed,
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in space.
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than
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more
as
change
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on
goes
is
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too,
transcend.
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in time
diffusion
This
this
it could
of time
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dimen-
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FUTURE
THE
IN
SURVIVAL
by
exists, and
our
in the
generations,
major
depths
should
The
144
such
Nature
catastrophe,much
of the Genius
expectations,annihilate
againstour
our
culture.
In
all
science
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of
Although
arts.
of
work
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A piece of scientific knowledge, particularly
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observation
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it will remain
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Thus
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see
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and
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researchers
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It often
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principles
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the depth of the concept,
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than
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majority of
results of tedious
new
is because
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by extending
more
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masterpiece.
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genius.
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years
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pulsationof
in the
masterpiecesof
brick
us
these facts
genius,rather
work
an
of
work
The
future
it refers
or
holds
statement
is concerned,
however,
revert
minor
scientific work
as
scientists;
yet they
science
The
unaltered.
cases
their
far
as
to
survives;having once
the atomic
and
remain
pieces of information,whether
correct
or
less
or
will
validity
centuries
ago
and
directions. Euclidean
thousand
years
ago,
it is necessary
establish
geometry,
is such
new
to
one
lished
estab-
masterpiece:
The
146
This
abilityto
of
human,
the
formula
what
rather
as
yet
makes
that is
Seven
reader"
not
not
Let
scholar, of
of
course"
of which
historical drama
minor
world
direct
it imparts
literature,
manner
the
same
of the
Theban
women
of
some
over
to
accept
a
simple
it
piece,
master-
Shakespeare's
the
It is
reader
merely
not
in the
many
five hundred
thousand
two
as
gent
Aeschylus.Even an intelliwill have
in
difficulty
are
to
in
example
passionsthat
variety of human
have
it survived?
there
express
an
as
as, say,
to
easy
obvious
as
Against Thebes
a
it
persons,
choose
us
that
same
deeplyhuman character
move
along the surface,
not
not
is the
masterpieceimmortal, we
empiricalfact.
one
does
is
of time
the
stories,landscapesor
The
works:
work
unchangeable.It
an
barrier
of countries:
genius.Such
picturing events,
of the Genius
the
penetrate
the boundaries
penetrates
of a work
Nature
archives
listener in
or
stillactive
are
ago. The
years
the horrors
of
of the
day,
to-
tation
lamen-
siegeand
as
dangers they are facing are the same
people'sreactions to war
nowadays; Eteocles is the representant of today's sabre rattling
the fightbetween
the brothers Eteocles and Polymilitarymen;
neices
then
as
brother's
narrow-minded
know
burial
is
wishing
againsta hurdle
run
style.If he
and
city council
prohibitthe
to
tragicpresentationof
not
politicians
petty
today. One
must
of the
the resolution
now;
of its strange
bellious
re-
bureaucratic
acquaint himself
to
effective
power,
with
those
we
that drama
of presentation,
subject,way
experiencea
unique sensation when he finds how littlehumans have changed in
that long span of time; a sensation only a masterly presentation
can
impart. If,in
if he
as
The
and
waded
human
he reads
through
value
painting,is
discussed.
obvious
ans
contrast,
or
hears
in
The
a
work
than
boredom,
of
voice
an
legal document.
masterpiece,equally present
same
old
evident
most
humorous
again choose
of
an
of the
mediocre
same
us
overcomes
in music
in serious
such as the
subjects,
in a work
of fatality
of genius is not
masterpiece,although as well present.
example
not
too
widely
known:
The
mongers
one
as
Let
Acharniand
war
in the Future
Survival
That
profiteers.
is so
comedy
once
does, he
to
will be
somebody opened
of fact" from
matter
and
have
art
and
to
by artificialmeans
critics make
contradict
them.
artificialmeans
at
other
that
words,
times
different
occasion
on
change,
epochs
which
to
and
the conclusion
maintain
is
some
disappearancefrom
instrumental
we
do
Experts
dare
not
relative oblivion,
from
held
been
esteemed
are
that
by
reputationwill
no
true
had
of Bach's music,
some
even
lost
it
and
back.
come
masterpieces,
hand
in
their
Mendelssohn
pedestal.Although
in the revival of
ever
by
times
some-
or
their
other
high. In
small groups
for instance, that Ibsen's dramas
predicted whether
notwithstanding
been
its age.
that rank.
to
masterpieces
spiteof
in
excellence,and
had
some
different
individuals. It is known,
be
has
lift a work
entirelynatural,sometimes
cannot
which
generallyjustified,
in judging masterpieces.There
certain role
drop another
tastes
comprehe
in-
play
movements
are
remains
dull. It is as if
never
drink
promoted
in their
believe
us
ences
refer-
many
much
bubbling
one
been
start
comedy
but
intricacies,
are
and
persons,
and
it is exhilarating
its
and
structure
modern
There
bottle of carbonated
its
easilyplow through
amply rewarded.
us, but
to
entirelydifferent in
events
contemporary
147
was
nobody
would
is open
There
experts"
play
to
it deserves
not
now.
at
present
it has been
more
or
less
enjoyingup
to
an
that music
romantic
the fame
whether
Vivaldi"
between
is
more
and
ours
times
the
of the twentieth
enjoyabletoday
period.With
lies in
movement
than
it had
appreciationof
certain
similarity
century,
been
art
making
during
also
the
changes;
the
Nature
The
148
fact
coming
that
to
the
particular
surface
of
braves
work
remains
the
sure
Genius
the
sign
fluctuations
of
its
grandeur.
and
keeps
28
ORIGINALITY
The
feature
work
is
with
The
first
new,
is it
question
which
of
is the
be
considered
this
is
simply
first
for
is unfavorable.
while
worth
the
field
of science
revolutionary
the
of
chapter
in
by
of the
rank
as
point
is
into
by
world.
among
of
masterpiece
of
this
followers
great:
of
blood,
of
earlier
Treatises
of
of
of
genius, however
149
such
work,
is
originality.
highly original;
William
on
verdict
the
Darwin's
originality, in fact,
Copernicus
elaborating
is
The
novel.
novelty.
opened
notion
that
work
original. It
of
are
comes
discovery, the
and
matter
unusual
work
the
the system
works
mere
cannot
work
means
no
refuting the
is
the
often
most
such
that
out
of
subject of
result,
of
matter
scientific
the
points,
closer
circulation
the
creation
and
among
theme
of
character; the
physiology;
astronomy
not
of
another
or
ranks
ever
of Species is
is, Is
which
imitators
main
essence
good
looking
Origin
the
often
certain
work
by experience.
out
stringent, and,
Critics
it has
although
center
scarcely
philosophical system,
is rather
demand
form
some
many
topic, the
originality:
principle of
In
too
are
borne
It is the
mind.
to
probed
thus
in
the subject
thinking of originality,
When
in
it from
at
feature
work
genius. A
of
before
There
fact
judging
basic
is the
new
their work
field, and
every
look
now
when
ask
to
achievement
great.
discussed
was
since
question is,doubtless, justified,
has gone
what
will
we
great
product.
something
prime
repetition of
do
genius;
is apt
one
original? The
establishment
of
of
man
of
thinking
angle, this
another
the
in
the
when
mind
chieflyto
comes
originality.From
connection
it
that
Harvey,
an
entirely
earth
being
discoveries
great
new
modern
established
the
coverer
dis-
their
the
of others
ance.
import-
The
150
certain
much
attract
the
attention.
subject,writes
the
Apart from
which
of the
word
is used
Along
of
matter
here.
short
first
does
who
man
to
who
man
which
note
second
the
are
not
elaborates
asked,
the
be called great in the sense
fact is that, although only the first is
The
which
the second
original,
comes
dissertations
two
Often
cited,there
cases
statement.
our
something publishesonly
discovers
on
contradict
respect
in the
of the
students
by
Genius
of the
quite obvious
is
Although novelty
others, detected
Nature
can
opens
up
field and
new
pointsout
all
example is
although
Roentgen's discovery of X-rays, certainlya masterpiece,
the
it entails
possibilities
observed
Crookes
casuallybefore
them
quite frequent,and,
are
is the
only. Another
of the
is the greater
more
him.
An
two.
science,such
In
less,of interest
or
the historian
to
it
as
acidity,particularly
of
measurement
cases
Sorensen
applied it in
of
recognized the significance
generallyuseful manner.
It is perhapsnot
a
so
the
much
be
philosophycan
exaggerationit
said that
be
can
found
in the
old
empirical
or
transcendental
realityof thought
proofs
which
they
did
than
by
The
method
with
not
been
used
the ideas
were
possess
sufficient
to
these
matter:
been
and
or
free
are
the
since
one
or
recognized by
clearly
to
idealism,
will,
basic
is the
strengthen
knowledge
without
problem of
added
been
has
have
alternative. While
realityof
What
philosophy.
of all
in which
manner
versus
thinking, determinism
bases
has been
new
nothing basically
deity,the
foundations
ality
origin-
true
Greeks, and
them
to
in which
way
added
and
method
hidden.
of all
the
subjectitselfbut the
however,
It was,
treat
them
the
the
other
the Greeks,
otherwise
reasoning.
sophistic
pictures,analogies,
syllogisms,
the same
remained
through the Middle Ages, and only
guesses,
Descartes, Hume
and
Locke
did
new
era
Originality
cation of
the
to
new
old
same
effective
the
by
Nowadays
it is
sense
problems
problems. This
of
are
There
tried
in
not
human
not
does
nature
position,they
of
kind
called
old
edifice:
values.
methods, since
successful
It is certain
in
holds
same
in
is one,
that
is
in
difficult
less
or
work
the
the old
at
be
stricted
re-
scarcelybe
recent
of
ethics
on
the old
Albert
ones
the
they
the
among
of
science
into
instilling
originality
and
This,
representativeof this
for
quantum
uncertainty
is that of human
scientific
succeeded
few
Schopenhauer
Schweitzer.
will be
more
their
disposal a solid
originalin the manner
topicsof human
values:
ethics
esthetics.
One
think
might
may
well
refer
of
melody
is
by
composers
at
so-called
new
techniques.Fichte
masterpiece.The
Spencer.Only
and
of
development
Henri
and
the
to
Mach
any
used
sciences. The
causality,several philosophershave
has
unfortunately,
exact
of Ernst
the
a
establishing
ideas;whether
physical
new
a
hands
their
strict
to
of
others, the
mechanics, utilizing,among
contrast
have
Since
them.
in this
knowledge, and
develops,the summary
been
few
masterpieces
a
the works
many:
among
principlein
increasingly
sciences.
present status
but as science
our
become
since
continuallychange.
must
of scientific observations,
exact
development
kinds of philosophical
two
can
distinguish
systems.
summary
are
has
of
we
deals with
One
151
the
does
matter
not
that
originalityin
the main
to
theme
inexhaustible,and
of
This
originality.
closer,it too
necessarilymean
not
sufficient. A
the
styleof
Ravel
needs
a
new
used
new
never
in those works:
ones
can
the wealth
always
be
invented
on
looking
amplification.
Originalityin
melodic
a
piece,utilizing
would
arts,
new
theme.
melody,
be called
music
It is
but
essential,
but
composed
original.
Again
we
in
are
The
152
faced
with
of the Genius
the main
point as before: it is not so much
be
theme, rather the technique by which it is developed that must
This
novel.
if
same
is the
reason
twist in the
new
the
Nature
in the romantic
possible.Beethoven's
Burana
of
works
are
composition which
Literature
be made.
not
exist before.
another
field in which
did
off ers
similar observations
can
True,
of Proust
We
touch
show.
here
the
Tale:
except
was
beautified
our
former
is unknown
shows
that
Using
an
of the
that Greene
with
drastic
that
point is
his Winter's
Fandosto,
Greene's
The
in
similarity
Shakespeare
"an
this
upstart
to
except
of literature. The
students
that of the
for
source
thoroughly defended
other
the
respects
Perhaps
secondary to
plot is so frequent an
brevity,actuallythey
is
are
as
treatment.
too
more
of
character
a
work
placed in what
narrow
were
to
work
to
of
means
genius.In
the
direction,the founding of
as
recent
matter
long
in
as
original.
was
features
are
that
occurrence
existingsources
styleand execution
be original,
facets that may
and
littlerestricted
of
of
use
emphasis was
These
style.
and
execution
the
execution
much
too
crow
example
be probably hard
would
find in
to
entirelyoriginalones
do exist. Goethe
literature,
although some
enlarged on this
and
case
of plot is
originality
older
was
Shakespeareutilized
Robert
story.
called
in
case
rigorously to
end
very
obvious
so
plays.A
plot adheres
for the
connection
in another
his
plots for
known
question of plagiarism.It
delicate
the
on
before
mentioned
should
novel
most
we
mentioned
be
as
up
to
may
school
the
of
said
on
of
for sake
adequate. Originality
the theme.
There
contribute
to
general terms,
opening
have
new
followers
the
then, originality
field,a
of which
new
can
of
works
The
fate
only
of
in
base
such
their
it
the
technique
is
is
hard
is
of
There
is
however
similar
too
it
springs,
will
artificial
to
Who
that
innovations
What
worthy
have
tell,
can
might
genius
ever
seems
of
anything
in
emerge
an
oddity
genius.
as
of
to
As
sense
who
today
sculpture
as
do
with
true
in
explained
ahead
explores
might
of
works
of
the
their
then
work,
today's
future
in
appreciated
mobiles,
thought
be
be
will
whether
however?
are
efforts
these
sincerity
of
Much
sculpture.
in
appears,
however,
wonders,
of
genius.
situation
grotesque
One
and
of
works
with
deal
them,
d'etre
raison
of
in
saw
believe
to
chief
upon
method,
they
sincerity
will
30
has
the
The
attention.
Chapter
obvious"
that
suspicion
the
what
the
creators
such
to
perhaps
one
The
demand
closest
like
the
effects.
desired
so,
and
too
of
here
thinking
fabric
visions
here
although
are
wood,
their
say
attract
to
We
comes
they
dismiss
to
quite
not
criterion
If
certain,
so
certain
assembly
imagination.
not
paper,
that
maintain
particular
but
of
achieve
to
considered
be
will
Picasso
present.
at
bits
pasting
work
the
that
possible
order
and
is
others
some
are
guesses
technique
of
of
Genius
future.
the
in
genius
the
of
Klee
Utrillo,
Matisse,
of
works
Nature
The
154
times.
of
made
They
genius.
wire
seem
inspiration.
Chapter
times;
hidden
become
there
7,
sometime
are
later
potentialities.
a
true
craft
29
HUMOR
The
not
feature
next
Science
works.
great
is
it
ever
Of
comedy?
it is
work;
A
work
who
of
of the
both
is
combination
basically
is
not
work.
invent
the
ask
we
that
sad, the
often
so
the
from
ask
we
every
be
to
is
just
have
We
in order
to
the
uniform
as
create
Why
instead
at
mood.
be
must
would
mix
to
fusion
with
the
very
same
him:
in other
be
some
mood.
the
It
main
time, and
words,
supposed
was
genius
in
not
and
Only
much
basic
he
is part
of
to
sal
univer-
of this kind.
work
switch
subject,
serious
from
man
noncreative
man
before, when
fundamental
a
his
to
product
the
ask
we
than
perform
to
tried
will be:
complex
A
strain
opposite, namely
mood
then
by
chuckle
to
elements
greater
is able
mood
able
humorous
pervaded
The
be
The
feel
man
the
into
great
effort, and
an
and
greatest.
professions of
otherwise
work,
at
now
must
for
in every
and
for
calls
in various
subject happens
or
combine
requires concentration
It
is needed
while
serious
it. This
in
steeped
element
he
to
tragedy
present
understand
thoroughly
must
of creative
mood
theme,
humorous,
the
means
be
and
serious
humorous.
strain
humorous
the
either
it
have
works
great
many
of
art
of many
we
the
Imagine
great.
what
moment;
precisely among
If the
serious
that
you
the
for the
far, and
so
characteristic
found, however,
become
must
it is,nevertheless,
to
course,
creates
he
discussed
those
as
art.
occur
features
essential
as
is excluded
about
mostly
Did
the
not
as
say
is
from
the
basically gay
to
serious
difficult.
to
effort?
the
of
instead
atmosphere
of
a
a
of
man
uniform
Is it necessary
simple atmosphere?
in
work
155
of
art
genius
is faced
mood.
The
for the
The
may
man
answer
be
only
with
question
to
create
is, yes.
one
step
The
156
from
True,
monotony.
if it is uniform,
who
does
of monotony
the
is
This
serious
moods
is the
effective in
and the
to
certain
the
only
one;
of
matter
tragedy becomes
work
is
art
than
what
to
extent
this
magnifiedby
and
oughly
thor-
explained.A
incomplete,and
extent
of the
mixture
proper
Tragic
contrast.
elements
alternate with
plasticthan
more
so
two
are,
dose of humor,
before.
it was
doubt,
no
Similarly,
be excellent in itself,
conveyingmerriment
may
derives from
one
Not
the humor
from
only
by
have
strike
the blended
tragedy
the
value
of
of
work
for
survives
quite a bit
comical.
human
many
piece
master-
If
breasts,it
of
work
be
must
art
a
is
true
not
humorous
The
in which
so
there is no
message.
in
resonance
picture of human
than
value of
mood
blended
exclusivelytragicor
never
is intensified.
the human
it spreads over
mixture
proper
that human
mixture,
pointed out
of which
means
of the whole
particularvalue. We
to
amazing
rupted
if it is unexpectedly interdelightto the viewer or listener;
by something serious,contemplative or even sad, the delight
and
is
humorous
to
one
There
is
felt rather
be
must
strictlyhumorous
For
arts.
understandingthe danger
of
work
in
even
work
art
artistic
monotonous,
versed
spectator
entirelyabsent. It
derives from
the humorous.
genius is never
much
quite as
not
pleasure one
of
for
not
diversityof aspects, by
is
of the Genius
work
least
at
have
not
Nature
work
of
effect of
blending
is executed
elements
not
have
of humor,
a
and
contemplative
art
but by an
organic fusion, is direct
merely by juxtaposition,
be rightfully
called a masterpiece,
and powerful.Such
a work
may
think I am
and I do not
merely imagining the importance of the
illustrate the point by some
feature. Let me
now
examples from
works.
of art, and, in a way, philosophical
the various branches
not
The
best
examples
the
are
idea
in
in fact,it is from
literature,
originated.Take
studyof
Shakespeare's dramas:
Humor
there
odd
is
does
sunshine, and
sometimes
not
drying
the listeners'
up
the connection
misses
of these characters
wonders, and
comical
perhaps the
most
perfectpicture of
in many
such
is either
the
on
shows
the
Tale
Winter's
his
of
most
other
is
wit
plays
Dostoyevsky's novels
ways
not
does
the other.
or
one
the appearance
consider
His
a
in
half-and-half, while
present
reading, one
performance
perfect harmony.
in
serious:
basically
are
in such
with
atmosphere
When
to
an
adequate direction
artificial.An
as
dark
tears.
is led
and
tragic and
emphasis
flooding the
appear,
in which
them
no
character
being
157
as
Tartuffe,in which
standing
outplays the most
Goethe's
Among
is his Faust, uniting tragedy and
comedy in a manner
serious
his other, strictly
probably unparalleledin world literature;
plays,such as his Tasso, do not stand comparison with the former.
comedy
and
of the
One
blend.
drama
that Ibsen's
reasons
dramas
are
masterpiecesis
true
no
is
Gynt
genius.Dickens's
humor
and
his Pickwick
serious
of
lucky exception and perhaps his only work
sadmasterpiece is David Copperfield,in which ness
Club
as
The
Old
Man's
divided;his Cyrano
is
exists works
There
Tale.
of humor.
is
is
reason
As
mentioned
their
is of such
is
serious
one
and
comedy
philosophicalworks
tragedy.
have
no
just that:
no
such
trace
Tolstoy'sWar
of the great
be
may
be mentioned
elements;stillit is a
practicallyabsent, but
as
gloomy
Rostand
Rabelais may
counterpart,
satire without
of
genius
Euripides'tragediesare
puzzling instance
element
dose of
in literature that
the necessary
opinions on
masterlyfusion
Sophocles' and
of humor.
Perhaps for that
whose
lacked
The
of
blend.
their lack
felt that
must
element, and
stories
have
He
uniquely amalgamated.
are
and
for
novels
Peace:
other
sical
the whim-
reasons
of world
earlier. One
piece.
master-
(see
literature.
might
say,
that
is
carryingthe
idea
contain
rather
they show
which
induces
to
in the
read
Two
readable
what
with
clever,sparklingpassages
such
mincing words,
They
mean.
are
of
on
obvious:
of such
work
painting?Does
about
extent
painting covers
is
asking too
found, and
not
so
pathetic,
yet
suppress
Visit e is
La
a
smile
The
examined.
comical
her
as
mother.
at
the
drama
into
elements
devoid
not
their
Shoes
of
is
or
single
may
be
his Chair
and
humor; it is precisely
melancholy. Toulouse-
serious
sight of the
Peeler
to
comes
my
very serious,even
from
under her big hat she looks
Henri
Rousseau's
comic
Gogh's
enhances
certainlya
of loneliness and
sensation
time
same
subjectthan
to
reason
even
delightful
Apple
the mother
mind:
the
The
comic
rarely.Van
very
at
Yet
qualitythat
this latter
Lautrec's
much.
admitted.
be
must
authenticityand scholarliness.
narrower
witticism,
refreshingfrankness;not
thesis hold
our
in literature,it
as
much
so
the
contrary,
that
picturesque expressions,
you
at
styleand expression
Philosopherswritingin a dry,
only; a layman,
by professionals
you'llsee
are
of the word,
sense
an
of
not,
smile.
to
are
usual
liveliness of
poignancy and
manner
in that field do
works
passages
the reader
matter-of-fact
even
of the Genius
far. Great
too
humorous
course,
and
Nature
The
158
calls forth
Sleeping Gypsy
desolation
be labeled:
in addition
to
danger
unseen
curiously up
the
picturing the
is
no
danger.
individual
forceful
indictment
degradationand
In
ridiculousness.
to
music, one
applying the principle
in music
is
not
identical with
the
gay
must
or
livelyelement.
The
Humor
of
necessity
been
felt
alternation
an
by
and
gay
sonatas
and
symphonies.
Humor
is
is
after the
Beckmesser's
prize
holds
same
Modern
deserves
have
high opinion of
previous connection,
musical
much.
duty
do
music
Their
lover
of inner
but
nothing
angle, it
latter
is the
point
is
as
composer
One
humorous
motifs, and
of
music.
count
practicallytheir
artists. It is the
of.
present
music
day
accordingly boring; in
content,
absence
Many
century
it is
contemporary
follows:
as
think of
not
professionalmen;
think
we
twentieth
opinion accordinglydoes
the result of
is much
too
cases
many
plainbluffing.
Judged from
it
another
of musical
certainlyoften
is overlooked
work
in
many,
may
be absent.
expressivenessand
Take
chief feature of
as
other
attributes
is
not
it may
be
masterpieces.
are
as
other
present
especially
humor.
Alban
continuous
a
essentially
translatingBiichner's
masterfully.
genius, and,
not
necessary. As long
melodiousness
in the
These
or
objections.Beauty
of
as
it is
found, beauty,
are
connotation,
of
in these
it is present
attributes
course,
do
we
work
characteristic
noted, it is not
it is
precisely his
point
necessary
The
is
as
for instance.
quartets,
While
the
objectionsare
noisy,void
of
think
we
commend
to
average
seems
understanding,whose
Nor
laugh,such
us
in this connection.
specialmention
As
and
ments.
move-
origin.It
recent
more
masterpiece
of serious
blend
do
in
of
in
jubilantchoral
that makes
Wagner's
people
not
is found
true
music
in which
preceding majesticallyserious
construction
song.
Meistersinger,a unique
the
Ninth
something different,and
sparklingand witty
technique
same
have
must
gay
resultingin suites
Beethoven's
In
the
and
serene
alternate. The
tunes
follows
of the
of all times,
composers
serious
movement
159
opera
Berg's
in which
Wozzek
wailing,a
most
drama
into
as
beauty is conspicuously
a
typicalexample:
expressivewailing,of
music
adequately and
The
160
It
humor
is
humor
often
is
listener
objective
for
literature
where
the
usual
The
throughout:
such
of
music
march:
of
and
symphonic
the
moreover,
wide
the
successful
highly
additional
appeal.
is
sufficiently
holds,
beauty:
be
the
by
an
artistic
for
way,
Shandy,
Tristram
termed
beautiful
the
music
music.
fanciful
work
excel
Concerto,
his
lyrical,
and
The
but
and
Romeo
the
original
works
requirements
Juliet-
delightful
most
lesser
humor.
the
these
discussed
composers
so
far:
the
whimsical
Both
mixture.
of
enrichment
ones,
In
element
humorous
of
dominates
also
in
modern
to
element
compositions,
best
of
credited
be
must
introduced
Shostakovich
and
humor
Oaks
think
with
blends
element
of
Dumbarton
Prokofieff"
and
word.
his
only
not
the
as
the
it
same
scarcely
Stravinsky's
In
The
expressiveness,
Besides
compositions;
that
admit
replaces
could
admixture
generous
composers.
he
of
sense
to
often
witty,
here.
century
melodies.
humor
extremely
while
have
will
Genius
with
twentieth
in
beautiful
substitute
in
found
the
of
concerned
are
we
Nature
into
the
the
ology
phrase-
satisfy,
originality
The
162
of the Genius
Nature
tionally
important than they are. Some scientists indulge in intendifficult language, often with an unnecessarilycomplicated
technical display to present a result that could be put into quite
formulas. To
or
simple sentences
step farther,there are
go one
distort the truth; it
who
and inventors
discoverers
intentionally
more
would
it
not
not
the
claim
that
work
is "sincere"
work
decide?
be
We
divided
Mann's
The
Some
the
on
Magic
sentences
rely on
must
matter.
Mountain
style is
at
might
Indeed, who
not.
or
end
say
that the
The
arts.
whether
out
tell? Who
can
that
It is thinkable
should
work
will
such
as
this
spect.
re-
judged differentlyin
be
easy:
of which
the
in
passing.
subjectivejudgment. Opinions
our
may
not
in
best is
at
one
long
might forget the beginning.
unnatural, others
of such
In that
ability.
sense,
then, the
sincere carries
opinion of those who consider the Magic Mountain
weight than that of others.
more
of what the creator
Sincerityin art impliesa direct presentation
with his visionary eyes. The
more
of the work
sees
closelyhe
more
It is
changes
possiblethat
because
it;he
man
he
the
more
this
on
true
the
led
to
becomes
vision,the
originalform
changes which
masterpiece; the
less
is not
presentation
is then
work
perfectthe
always
only
few
easy,
chiefly
might
grasp
although
vision.
original
he thinks necessary,
result.
Sincerity
One
can
that it often
see
alterations which
short
genius
attractiveness.
superficial
to
Tchekov's
with
told
are
are
did
it need
tell these
to
life? As
from
abstain
to
stories
extreme
an
self-constraint
needs
might add
163
you
previous
one.
Mountain
in
both
poet
harsh; it is
too
visions
painter have
or
given
not
have
such
imagination can
before, the answer
said
to
look
to
us
products of
been
that
art
of
were
being
There
wrong.
replicaof the
prejudice or
is
the
it
and
is
be part
that may
lack
all the
thing that
to
the
to
artistic
are
great
be
it could
that
be made
never
can
field for
it is
there
accusers
be
not
by
heated
many
is
The
artistic
Bible
activity,and,
is such
at
have a
religiouspaintings may
not
religiouscan, in spiteof
are
of true
delightin those masterworks
need
do not
ligion,
repeople today who
in the increase. Science
suppliesthem
not
give.Yet
there
activity.The
work:
composed it,
people who
of its lastingvalue. Our
never
knowledge religioncould
cannot
As
ancient
secret
looking
their number
and
with
of the
spiritual
resonance,
simplicity.There
all times
that the
know
unusual
mostly sincere.
people who
even
reason;
of
vast
from
came
so
no
the insincere.
from
true
which
one
by
say,
truthful
are
by contemporaries
Bronze
cused
acAge, was
The
fraud; we
vision. Decisions
man's
premature
time, separate
work
no
is here
attacked
were
statue,
mold, hence
sincere.
considered
artist's soul. At
the
into
can
judgment
Our
be
work
how
by necessitysubjective,since
is
stamped artificial.Rodin's
and
sincere:
be
unrealistic?
so
of
stretch
could
very
presentations.Take
we
these
whether
might wonder
one
world
would
miss
been
is
one
owes
inspiredby faith
uncounted
treasures
The
164
in the absence
of that
Genius
of the
Nature
faith,the
of
source
excellingin
treasures
sincerity.
Compulsion
It is related
as
looking for! Of
might spice his composition
have
we
musician
here
been
by the
characteristic of
the work"
sincerityof
the
to
earlier
mentioned
was
lesser educated
is
order
in
of his
strata
tions
of the rela-
one
inspired
an
even
course,
wider
find
to
genius.
feel
public.We
ceptance
ac-
pity
for him
hardly
for
be
not
imagined
by vision,or,
vored
produce anything sincere: if he is not falet us say, if there is no
pulsion
quasi-externalcom-
to
loses
sincerity
of art,
works
lacked
have
been
illustrated
feelingthat
is difficult to
call such
it
sincere:
work
determination.
sober
product of
rather the
by taking up
matter
considered
not
this
to
up
point:
sentimentality.
Sentimentalityin
in
is taboo
sentimentalbasicallycorrect, ity
trash" these are nearly
Sentimentality,
sweetness,
art.
Everyday experience
which
shows
in the
that kind
is
them.
of
sweet
now_precisely
It
element.
latter has
Their
shows, hit
is
demand
that those
seems
of relaxation
specialand
for
not
than
memories
what
who
tunes-
mand
de-
who
attracted
are
understandable
fine
peal
ap-
rather
art,
for
for
ment,
amuse-
conducive
was
magazine
art"
is
lucrative,those
of all the
that commercial
art
awakening
of this instinctive
base
it
perfectlylegitimate.People want
littlelaugh,for a little cry. Nothing is more
relaxation,and
for
the
at
pictures,musical
sentimental
by the sentimental;the
rather
are
us
motion
stories,illustrations,
for
cording
in itself.Ac-
contradiction
sentimentality?
from
abound
is
art
expressions.What
synonymous
recoil
of
work
general notions
to
to
the
suppress
ultramodern
certain
is
concluding this discussion, the importance of sincerity
In
it is
cannot
we
with
meaning. Faced
It
inspiration.
have
must
its
faithful to,
be
wish
sentimentalitythey
are
Since
to
able
tears
the demand
benefit
to
of
by
muster.
joy and
sorrow
is great
it will
Products
make
and
use
of this
Sincerity
have
nature
a
only
of
work
great
the
art
sentimentality had
in
those
in
condone
the
it; on
contrary,
instinctively avoids
is because
the
sincerely felt
the
not
or
and
of
acceptable
the
work
is the
sincere, that
there
are
of
music
do
Gustav
are
many
who
of great
had
this
on
music.
It
presented those
Strauss
dissatisfied with
hold,"
death.
impelled
certainly
upon
his
emotional,
It is
whom
only
to
did
vent
not
he
was
lot, "mir
continually
his
do
could
great
that
mood
in
not
in
order
count
deal
make
dieser
such
Welt
by
a
from
wish
anyhow.
acclaim
in
ard
Rich-
his
with
phonic
symgreat
his nature;
man,
very
much
nicht
Gluck
which
of
realm
as
of
forebodings
passages
there
that Mahler
manner,
das
ample
ex-
lengthy
the
disposition he
the
This
and
passages
melancholy
win
our
versial
contro-
ways.
sentimental
to
and
elements
these
on
disturbed
with
work
such
auf
war
sincerity,of
passages,
restricted
included
life and
the
symphonies,
only
can
more
unhappy,
an
natural
his
one
enlarged
know
we
he
that
he
Mahler
Yet
consistency. Now,
know
in
passages
His
dismiss
admitted,
whenever
did
work.
we
be
must
of
matter
it is
both
in sentimental
account
Whether
of
this connection:
Mahler.
and
This
like.
arguments
many
artist
great
excuse
even
not
partly
of
thing
some-
do
passages.
power
jecting
re-
element
we
may
study
it may
not
in
example
an
and
case,
is the
such
otherwise
we
mention
us
is
case
only by
is
tolerated.
be
can
before,
said
as
judged
Yet
man.
trait
be
is,
that
sentimental
including the
can
the
feeling that
Let
when
the
as
composer,
trait is sincere
conjecture
character
or
convinced
are
there
that
some
to
us
sentimental
stressed
exceptionally it
it. Yet
author
so
the
be
that
inducing
then, that
It appears,
we
find
we
without
should
It
upon.
with
associate
we
art,
counterbalancing
frowned
otherwise
of
them,
into
so
sweetness.
works
question.
works
such
of
certain
crept
works
the
value, and
absence
however,
Analyzing,
artistic
rarely
165
his
often
was
he
the
quite
masses
31
POWER
In
a
the
pondering
of
work
be
may
called
that
great?
art
the
shows
and
call for
in
its
to
that
him
of
the
the
to
genius"
such
that
while
Power,
its frankness
in
all
Burghers
of
nerves,
work
much
is
the
Calais.
unless
his
not
of
of
art:
It
not
conceit
as
This
rude.
Goethe's
work
is weak
lack
that
yet
it
level
it
as
cannot
weaknesses:
is
mon
com-
Faust, Dostoyev-
Rodin's
person
I said that
too.
of
The
feature
for
not
just
Its indifference
Kreutzer-Sonata,
is
fair
hobby"
humanity
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our
in
of
obvious
so
hours
talent.
rudeness.
that
intentions, by
certain
terpiece
mas-
of
mark
utmost
elevate
work
invariably
rugged.
dejection,
166
with
leisure
our
uncouth,
Beethoven's
receptivity
to
in
us
spite of best
level
own
powerful
inducive
one
does
or
the
be
writing
or
is sometimes
Odyssey,
is
possible. A
must
higher than
of
pride
no
conspicuous
is
proud,
works
be
whole.
that
were
it will
most
is
which
powerful
sky's Possessed,
weak
the
considerations
by
is
such
in
produced,
our
as
manner
highest, the
approach
for
power
may
so
work
humiliate, rather
to
out,
is the
way
unconcern
obstructed
hence
no
work
such
turn
be
cannot
in
powerful
whole, its
be
It
could
by painting
might
humans
toward
a
works
diligent study, by
most
which
height, if
with
ture
fea-
expression of might,
There
certainty. Many
power.
that
masterpiece
of
us
what
powerful
its
in
intended
own
has
humanity
with
makes
unimportant
not
art
what
stars
not
of their
imitation
an
feature:
the
the
and
such
and
elation.
majestic and
impresses
imitate
to
of
listener
for
feel it with
we
work
smallness, yet
might,
level
but
others
or
own
sun
that
try
viewer
it is
vague
here:
us
prefers,strength. A
dejection, rather
power;
great
above
his
quiet, detached
him
one
literallytowers
overwhelms
as
if
or,
occupies
seemingly
mentioned.
power,
that
question
can
be
with
ful
power-
disturbing,
Power
and
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no
by writing his
that he
much
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novel
if he
even
power,
be
may
unkind
Of Persons
practically
nothing
are
Notebook
intensity.Barlach's
of other
absence
except
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so
of
Some
power.
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or
and
during
in
man
if you
except
characteristic
One
power.
saying, it
feels
one
of great
peasant
tire
not
the
woman
study them,
only repeat, nothing,
not
the
feature
of
even
frills,
strength,devoid
in the
nature
person,
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we
describe
cannot
is abstract
glance into
them,
does
One
pose.
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asked, what
consist of
Chopin's
only sketches,
impressions of
are
reference
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minia-
even
Preludes
and
Dance.
Miracles; they
else is in them
of
Etudes
as
short poems
Arrived
and
cause
complexity,
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Strindberg'sDeath
can
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certainlyhas
his Ghosts
features, and
necessarilyrelated to length or
works
they often go together.In principle,
of the
size may
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is
Power
words
he
justified;
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his burden
unload
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title. Some
sleepless
nights.So
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person
had
finally
same
other
lacks
disturbed
Kreutzer-Sonata
degree. The
genius,Tolstoy,so
167
to
than
better
of
by
beauty;
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just
genius are powerful, in fact,many
division of masterpiecesinto
is an interesting
the opposite.There
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have spoken. The
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and it is only of one
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but by grace; again we
is characterized
use
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group
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hampering
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words
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and
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say,
accomplished, elegant.
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must
learn
meaning
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comprehend
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to
use
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presumptuous.
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another.
forced
for which
hand, when
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been
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extravagant
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of words
matter
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been
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irksome
occasions:
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words
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as
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describe
not
a
on
speaking new
new
of
all works
since
other
them
word, sincerity
that is delicate,
Nature
The
168
How
then,
is it
there
are
of the Genius
kinds
reallytwo
might wonder,
one
the other?
steps above
inclined to think
are
graceful.So
only
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powerful
We
think
Monet.
unbiased
observer!
thought of
will
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work
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the
higher than
ranks
kinds
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are
about
point may
masterpieces,unless
of
then would
be very rigorous;we
and that is the powerful.
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work
this
on
graceful masterpiece:
equal rank,
kinds,
two
are
little doubt
Opinions
the
There
no.
have
to
want
we
of
two
there
see,
you
the
are
masterpieces?The
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say, there is
to
before
vista opens
up
of Heine
and Rostand, Mozart
what
the
of these could
None
and
rightfully
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The
in the feminine.
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would
quite differently
by Sophocles, if he lived today,since the
saw
powerful elements;the sicklyRostand
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written
fashioned
his drama
the
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of
specialabilities,
His
executes.
special feature
A
less
genius that
and which, accordingly,
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sees,
aside such
harmony.
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in
true
for
powerful, are
of
is apt
Power
to
as
Euripides, and
in
rounded
decisive part.
and
the group
power.
The
their form,
form
to
of
him
for
was
the
the
thought,
truth, without
degree the
lesser
Oscar
or
concession
to
pinnacle of
that
in
play a
course,
praise him as an
mattered
utilitarian.What
matter-of-fact,
the principles,bursting forth in search
for beauty.Perhaps to
consideration
a
no
of the
inclination
brush
lace. It is
same
Faust.
power,
style and
there
metre;
is
Haydn
Beethoven
is
perhaps the
could
not
be
most
halted
The
170
understand
same
that
for
refined
for
appreciated.
David's
painting,
du
of
less
the
lost
works
of
because
to
mind
the
can
contrast:
when
is
conveyed
and
world,
world
of
Rilke's
thinking
this
poetry
of
these
doubly
of
the
taste,
but
none
group,
rather
striking
France's
novels
Anatole
in
good
graceful
refinement,
rarities
and
today
decried
or
perhaps
reason
in
The
Chopin's
d'Haussonville
perfections
aristocracy,
display
of
this
Comtesse
are
time.
excellence,
for
just
his
much
par
characteristic
also
of
by
luxury
d'Ognes
Val
Genius
artistocracy
Ingres's
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exquisite.
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nocturnes:
realistic
Charlotte
powerful
come
his
our
In
remnants
the
refinement
instance,
the
of
for
composed
of
impression
music,
too
he
Nature
art.
32
COMPLEXITY
The
from
word
the
path, they
one
the
that
now
difficult
is
of
one
work
to
the
the
reasons:
his
turn
attention
the
what
time
same
continual
various
in
turnings
viewer
of
at
the
these
background;
possible
strain, marring
the
listener
or
forgetting
not
the
in
or
become
easily
may
of the
part
was
Here
strata.
character
directions,
underneath
was
educated
multi-dimensional
It
geographic barriers,
the
appreciation by
to
now
standing
under-
makes
inexperienced.
and
are
well,
as
course,
transcends
masterpiece
it is still restricted
uninitiated
the
particular
one
directions
of
This,
dominating.
for
following
other
in
time
same
borrow
me
masterpieces
that
say
of
Instead
Let
complex.
and
mathematicians,
at
go
is
masterpieces
multi-dimensional.
mostly
this
of
majority
enjoyment.
This
complexity
its visual
by
the
on
from
the
on
of
part
the
who
one
Athenian
and
example
little
Lorentz
great
This
feature
of
theory
Einstein
and
masterpieces
complexity,
of
vocal
are
cated
compli-
scores,
cannot
be
although
masterpiece.
and
perceived
The
171
true
for
Maxwell's
by
means
Hertz,
of
enjoyment
cheaply.
fairly general,
are
be
can
only by
extension
encompassed.
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of
beauty
if its further
acquired
holds
same
scenes
sacrificial
and
groups,
and
be
light can
be
fighting
study. The
value
Parthenon
the
on
numerous
study
enjoyment
superficialobserver
the
real
to
friezes
the
which
opera
maximum
derive
equestrian
study, particularly
strenuous
motifs,
its
detailed
masterpieces. The
electromagnetic
of
to
are
with
Centaur,
to
wants
Acropolis:
it offers
processions
Wagner
Another
work.
Lapith
between
orchestration,
aspects,
and
text
exemplified by
be
may
some
is
not
characterized
necessary
by
re-
Nature
The
172
markable
simplicity.By making
might
one
that
say
some
such
often
with
the
works
too
not
are
easier
enjoyed much
Folk
products belong
survival in time, spread
well
as
truly
Grimm,
of these
creators
old
folk
and
Greek
products
creators
part
were,
from
Transition
varies
they
can
Youth's
they
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poems,
Brothers
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by
bled
assem-
The
Horn.
Magic
anonymous
like the
sculptors.The
qualityof
remain
to
one-
imitators
only.
multi-dimensional
works
may
be
touched
by
of
means
composer,
more
in this category,
by
gether
to-
place: their
first
belong
folk
ecclesiastic
medieval
the
the
collected
those
unknown,
are
evident
character
in
in The
probablyexcellent
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studied
as
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and
Arnim
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terested
in-
are
uninitiated.
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pieces,and
immortal
We
art.
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over
tales, such
folk
as
result
therefore, the
are,
this group
in
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questioned.
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sinceritycannot
and
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even
Quite
requirements. Generally,
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this
as
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various
our
is
simplicity
other
our
numerous,
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Because
interesting.
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with
of
works
which
in
directions.
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follow
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not
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of folk art, we
come
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Leaving the domain
In literature
masters.
territoryof simple works created by known
a
good example is The Pickivick Papers. It is reallya series of
simple and
the
humorous
artistic value
stories,written
of the work
and
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painted by
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The
of
novel, yet
humorous
Busch, offer
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Complexity
example.
finest
In
Widow.
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nature,
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limit
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either
there
Are
there
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works
facts
of
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and
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will,
judge
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course,
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of
simple
inspection,
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and
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sight.
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at
equivalents,
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the
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although
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electrochemical
law
disappears.
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the
gravitation,
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of
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assessing
in
its
The
and
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quote
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careful
only
of
taste
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pressure
detail,
often
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in
quoted
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be
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Strauss.
Johann
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classical
representations,
Merry
the
the
music
1 7 3
concerning
of
these
goes
with
relations
into
arts
greater
in
this
33
MIRROR
The
is in
viewpoint
next
plentifullyemphasized
of
of
work
such
could
be
the
times
by
it, captured,
to
try
the
whence
is
along with
go
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relation
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not
pertinent
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to
timelessness
of
connections
in
times, surrounded
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rooted
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be
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genius is simply
and
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to
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actually derive
to
attempts
not
sociological considerations.
thesis
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We
not
can-
outgrowth
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of
realism
and
their
of
the
as
of
art
and
the
naturalism,
the
age.
The
be
can
of
that
our
relation
174
as
well
well
with
the
the
is
versa:
into
rococo,
early nineteenth
turning
present
ages,
subdivided
in
is
art
intricate,
great
art
faithful
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or
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changes
respect
recent
shorter
is that
century
its latter
a
as
philosophy,
as
known
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while
felt the
have
sense
all feel
times, medieval
ancient
eighteenth
luxury,
and
times:
These
present.
idealism
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the
this
times; this
people
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unique; changes
is
recent
rapid. Arts,
of
aspect
In
nature.
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students
by
abrupt. We
in
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on
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years
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all times
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own
periods
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is based
times
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past
perhaps
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refinement
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and
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arts
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in
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genius from
phenomenon
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originates. We
a
with
This
27.
contrast,
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TIMES
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Chapter
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genius.
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close
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Most
people
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art.
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plentifully
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creating works
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Present, misdirected
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is
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interested
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Schweitzer.
profession in
did
as
times
profession,and
of
talk
can
times,
it appears,
as
relation
the
for
danger
the
175
the
the
the
genius, and
question is,in
temptation? There
two
are
ways
for him.
open
One
the
avoids
pitfallby deliberatelyturning
subjects.Some
from
former
where
they
fanciful
and
if their
use
search
can
for their
subjects;we
are
imaginary. There
and
do
creators
not
own
fulfillthe other
have
and
field
vast
group
dwell
on
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for
requirements.Poe's
who
fine works
always find
survive
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rent
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subjects
untimely topics.Another
fantastic
of artists choose
the
or
to
flight
historyand choose
legendarymaterial. There is a
their
take
times
from
away
Hoffmann's
this group.
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many
as
it may
subjectsare
In
purely historical
of
works
not
seem
at
first sight.Many
reallyescapistsfrom
realitythey picturetheir
vein. We
media.
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might
with
quote
fanciful
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own
this consideration
artists who
the
times in
Gulliver's
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choose
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Travels
am
nature
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remote
Present.
or
allegorical
or
coming
the Divina
to
the main
as
satirical
Corn-
point,
The
176
the
second
Nature
in which
way
of
the Genius
artists avoid
truly great
the
of
pitfalls
actualities.
The
does
greatest
absorbs
it. His
work
union
be
needs
and
effort will
be
must
time
same
as
genius
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become
direct
mirror
vidual
original,indi-
of the
times. This
chief features
it. There
hope
of this
requirement of
never
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creating an
achieve
to
work
is
his
of the
one
in
deliberately,
of
consists
considered
masterpiece.It
knowingly
the
at
from
away
achievement
that
may
turn
not
true
others who,
are
be
to
of
appreciated by
Unfortunately,such
and his
spontaneity and sincerity,
nature.
and
anything of lastingvalue.
Such
work
than
more
It offers
will, indeed, be appreciatedby posterity.
vivid. Our
main
heritageof
art
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works:
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mere
tell
that
about
us
of married
the
life in Paris
ness
century, and that with a vividscientific treatise could
value
and precisionno
surpass. The
becomes
of such art work
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years. Even
the
an
excellent
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picture of
contains
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wealth
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different
of
portraitsthat
of timeliness and
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matters,
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at
called
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only for
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caliber;while
not
few
hit
masterpiece.Although
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array
of
it lacks
fifteen
beauty, philosophy,and
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Galsworthy'sForsyte Saga
as
believe,power,
volumes
on
value,
merely journalistic
work
such
mark, and
been
the real
it
logical
psychounion
masterpiece.
34
SEX
We
in
have
of
on
In
works
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good
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matter
The
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on
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works
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The
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3 1
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GENIUS
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The
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179
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that
an
easy
of all
did
they
so
their work
have
occasion
on
not
clear
steer
to
not
is
sex
cases
determination
great
in any
managed
novelist
avoidance
manner
writers, however,
temptation. It
is because
writer. This
in this
and
Some
matter.
with
story
all aspects
person,
van
George.
different
and
without
is not
humor.
A
with
is treated
never
this attitude
great
way
elements
our
of
his is
tainted
do
not,
in
Description of
seems
by
painting follows
natural,yet
sex.
The
merely
solution
indicates
the
sexual
relations
maritime
bliss of
is in itself a feast of
offer material
the
different
with
of the
critical
brieflyor
of
avoidance
meticulous
large scope
it rather
at
and
love
Quite possibly
exclusivelyspiritual.
merely a Victorian trait;in any case, his
of genius
Copperfield,are typicalworks
however,
compromise
lengthy novels
be
to
of such
in novels
treat
entirely,
sex
or
appears
his
In
particularsubject at hand.
The
greatest part of masterpiecesin
part
is
is Dickens.
caution.
utmost
no
They
point
beyond superficialtouches,
go
loving couples
in
in
typicalcase
for
further
literature
and
do
path. They
moment
sex
enters
the writer
occasionallyby
genius.
discussion
of
substantial
not
eliminate
discretion,brevity and
dilemma:
those
wit.
wherever
stops
This
it
abruptly
witty turn
the
Nature
The
180
sequence
which
on
This
fields too,
the
only
and
the
at
in that of
to
these
of
thus
and, in
more
similar, although
in the
phrase of Madame
be
in other
art,
the
problem, and
of
works
true
of the Sentimental
"N'oubliez
vein, the
with
de
pas
genius.
closing episode,
is the
sensual
who
masters
Proust.
or
Chauchat:
to
way,
by
solves
delicacies
literary
sentence
love
unheeded
Bruckner
as
above
on
that claims
principleof presenting
holds quite generally in art,
delightfulpieces in
most
root
even
It is the
sex.
overdo, such
to
cloying.
of the principleof
work
overdo; it
science, although it is often
instance
French
superfluousor
principleholds, by the
technique mentioned
be
of art, of
The
not
necessary,
results in the
An
only
exactly how
The
surfeit is
work
product.
not
also in
know
of
out
artistic
true
enlarge would
to
or
superfluity
leavingsex
of the Genius
Journey,
in
discourse
the
enigmatic
rendre
me
mon
crayon."
There
instances
many
this prescript;the French,
are
of
of this kind
in the French
with
The
presentation.
inherent
their
wit,
is treated
sex
manner
follow
literature which
are
by
masters
Anatole
is
the
perhaps
most
that
of
the
women.
We
to
come
now
who
offer
is the
domain
of the
matter.
most
course,
Painting is
direct
photography
that
catexochen
and
of
arts.
in this
meant
It has
one
of
shall
we
music.
has
in
latter,when
certain
of
reserve,
genius. The
see,
widest
all other
arts
Painting, however,
when
mind
thinking
law
the unwritten
producing works
painting,but, as
in this regard, even
possibilities
field is, of
the
in
succeeded
violated
no
have, quiteintentionally,
is for this
distant
reason
relationshipto
representingerotic subjects,
in Works
Sex
certainly,a photograph,
fluid. Quite
work
genius,and
be
of
painting.Yet
this
of
also in
relativelysimple
existence
of
genius.If they
in
space
the exhibition
between
of
and
permits
of the sensual
the work
is
sible
pos-
abundantly
so,
power,
have
cannot
make
to
an
certainlynot
of
work
includingappeal
complexity, then
effect
adverse
the
on
heighten
even
missing,
even
probably
will
masterpiece,and
decision
survive.
not
There
is
point
no
It
matters.
art
however
great
beautiful
as
is
do
and
can
arouse
he
connoisseur
not
personal interest
may
of the work
cannot
and
as
in
or
contemplating
same
look
time
of the excellence
go
can
in
centuries
works
an
art
tute
insti-
art
many
be
raised
sensual
old. The
many
Very
dominates
Courbet.
to
way
nude
prevalent in
natural that
no
of those works.
an
so
is
reaction
at
circumstance
is
stilllife
may
element
some
This
nude.
Painting of the
or
of
purpose
together
people who
are
artistic preciati
apment
detriwithout
because
cases
gourmet
suppressed.There
be
terests
awakening personal in-
go
of
definition of the
be. Kant's
may
interest,
observer's sensual
an
and
to
when
discussingthese
being hypocritical
that erotic subjects presented in
admitted
in
be
must
masterpiecesof
it
and
art
exist,and
features
all other
humor,
time, originality,
and
never
masterpieces
to
domains
two
very
best, can
compared
the
that
criterion
present,
are
becomes
difficultto draw.
nonexistence
or
its
at
even
be
cannot
181
products
vulgarityis sometimes
is the
it
so
kinship between
the
explainswhy
nonartistic
artistic and
Genius
of
in
of Picasso, such
Sculpture takes
an
as
art
in
his Embrace.
exceptionalpositioninasmuch
found
are
as
the human
form;
dressed
The
182
human
of
has
statue
of the Genius
unnatural
an
perhaps the
as
Nature
aspect. Greek
produced by human
art
greatest
notwithstandingfew
figuresare
thought
Roman
by
necessary
of Cnidus,
of Rodin's
of
work, such
by the
Literature
found
the
his Eternal
as
elements
far,
so
metal
drapery,
partly covering the Aphrodite
censors,
genius. And
genius
draped.
after Praxiteles,must
copy
that work
to
sculptureis thought
be
considered
partly strong
Spring,
is
mental
detri-
sensuality
amply
balanced
counter-
in others.
of grace in some,
power
and
instances of erotic presentation,
offers many
the
judging the
of the work
merits
reticence
the Felix
in
question.Thomas
of sex
descriptionswas
in
matters
exception; considered
rightly be judged
together with
the bulk
similar
masterpiece.A
siderable
con-
mentioned;
in this
Krull
Mann's
regard,is
it
of his work,
an
can
is Balzac's Contes
case
when
viewed
from
the angle of his total powerful
drolatiques,
Lover
discussed in Chapter 9 from
was
output. Lady Chatterley^s
another
its
assure
standpoint;the various assets of that work
tions.
descriptionof sex relaliteraryvalue in spite of the uninhibited
Poetry, often
characterized
opposite.Such
is the Dafnis
pastoralpoems
in the
with
in world
gem
is
too
transparent.
Kreutzer
work
that incited
writer's
who
is
manner.
Is there
listeners there is
belong
not
special
such
many
dealing
century,
prudish.
not
this discussion?
There
To
Holz, untranslatable
Arno
seventeenth
the
just the
be
can
no
veil that
such
problem.
in the realm
easy
to
thing
of opera,
decide which
which
of the
Beethoven's
as
one
music; it is then
is dramatized
sides
for
by
rustic, outspoken
of the instances
Besides,some
two
fit into
eroticism in music?
not
in
love
music
series
style of
literature
does
How
as
of
matters
refinement,
by
the
to
which
listener
Sonata
was
mentioned
Tolstoy objected: to
to
lust. Not
ideology.
in another
it
will share
many
by
him
his
tion
connec-
was
the
music
great
strongly puritanic
Sex
Some
the
among
raised
also
scandal
the
music
listener
with
is
peculiar
character
listening
to
the
two
in
that,
analogue,
This
scale,
the
is
element
love
seducing
This
of
finding
of
it
sensual
in
needs
harmless
analogy
By
and
painting
deeply
of
absorbed
genius,
sensual
then
such
element
such
an
in
This
as
seen
observer
the
forced
that
say
again
is
Giorgione's
only
by
might
is
the
be
evil
partly.
excessively
of
be
lewd.
frigid.
all
these
vious;
ob-
sages,
pas-
of
truth
the
same
An
qualities
might
eye
find
is
seem
at
not
piece
situation
true"
Tempest,
to
particular
might
It
affair,
artistic
overwhelming
fatally
far.
glass
the
Delilah's
reveals
so
There
intervals.
Delilah.
music
magnifying
might
literature.
and
upon
otherwise.
one
employed
in
musical
properly
of
use
stage,
physiological
made
is
music
its
half-step
touched
sexual
the
by
the
in
in
The
better
ascending
sensual
not
entirely
this.
the
of
Samson
opera
problem,
the
that
his
in
song
the
or
Saint-Saens
discussion
aspect
that
descending
as
similar
particular
insinuation
is
plot,
sensuous,
watching
One
coloration
is
observed
without
to
erotic
possesses
chromatic
due
possibly
the
only
Tannhauser.
is
performance.
actually-
Perhaps
Wagner's
mentioned
concert
in
notice.
compositions
scenes
Not
dance,
will
scene
which
career.
ever,
how-
are,
opera
Salome,
Salome's
especially
these
of
realm
its
understanding
of
the
of
stages
Venusberg
instance,
element
itself,
the
183
Strauss's
is
early
musical
instance
for
the
at
in
in
Such
Genius
of
masterpieces
sensual.
strongly
Works
in
in
in
observer,
of
work
of
unaware
Maybe.
the
But
35
PICTURE
few
words
whether
what
We
of
have
we
is
of
the
genius and
that
separately.
unit, and
It
would
Since
we
from
these
us
see
question,
that
different
two
several
one
would
features
of
features
of
the
clear
picture,
man.
for
the
at
the
look
to
the
viewpoints.
the
of
features
formed
two
appeared promising,
results
that, though
derivable
altogether
not
the
man
discussed
were
the
the
yielded, indeed,
strictly corresponding,
other, contain
it
status,
two
because
from
possibly
the
the
of
separately
viewpoints
two
genius;
the
deducible
be
that
parts,
theoretically
all
knew
we
obtaining
from
of
that
discussed
far
of
The
Let
the
answering
in
main
two
work
the
realized
then
are
purpose
matter
of
was
be
to
into
problem
that, if
have
work
order.
in
genius.
divided
not
all successful
at
be
will
recapitulation
been
GENIUS
THE
OF
the
from
one
work
the
and
man
not
do
that
correspond.
Both
this is
the
chief
our
and
actually
From
this,
in
whom
ten
our
mind,
of
existence
to
man
that
perform
his
of
which,
They
features
high degree
of
features
not
of
the
are
of
to
does
be
his
welfare;
own
187
man
such
that
to
came
ones.
are
call, that
whether
the
following:
practically
he
interest, often
certain
is
mean
that
others.
Ten
not
those
essential
genius
than
genius
possible
are
combined.
are
predestined duty,
primarily
personal
essential
course,
happen
quasi-external voice,
duty
single
they probably
and
fundamental
The
of
exhaustive.
are
features
of
more
are
features:
independent
genius follows:
the
all
discussed,
were
the
not;
nearly
or
features
of
of
combinations
All
Some
definition
consist
work
the
premiss.
exist.
all
features
the
and
man
the
forces
wishes
it
or
performance
to
compensation
the
ment
detrifor
his
The
188
steady, strenuous
in
that
Nature
creative
his works,
work
by
The
foresight of
dim
accompanied
of his creation.
permanence
the Genius
of
by
longing for
actual
an
mortality
im-
an
features described
of
are
an
abstract nature,
This
concrete
with
concerned
nature,
are:
of the craft,which
that
does
adhere
not
enabling the
impressions from
outside
the
project
human
react,
to
man
tery
mas-
drawn
with
concerned
matters
to
has been
design of which
the
work;
of any
alone
These
man.
world;
which
memory
it
makes
immediate
of his entire past experience,
use
possible for him to make
which
his past
personal or acquired by study, without
would
be lost for his creation; a high degree of perseverance,
bordering
obstinacy,to
on
in
usually great
inner
vast
features of
sometimes
which
resources
added
ability,
path,
indicative of
finallyprolificness,
and
number;
obstacles in his
all the
overcome
those
to
of
These
inexhaustible.
seem
mentality,give
his
reasonably
activity.
I do
it is
whether
of
of Balzac
statue
advancing
the
garment,
mention
gives a direct
and
with
of the
is
little later. A
that
no
but
not
Rodin's
one:
arrestingidea of
hidden
all combine
the
to
plaster
genius: the
the
under
think
can
folds of the
give in
the
of the details,than
statue
one
lengthiest
provide.
perhaps
analysis,or, if
a
arms
brows:
if
essentials,
discussion could
This
the
genius is;
visualizable. I
searchinglypained expressionof
and
pictures.To
posture,
picture of
satisfactoryour
informative
sufficiently
direct
more
how
know
not
you
work
analysiscan
wish, science, to
of
art
match.
possesses
While
supremacy
we
directness
the latter
can
will
and
be
of
art
come
over
back
conciseness
studied
only
Picture
by
former
is accessible
conveys
The
of
the exclusion
Hannibal
is
of
action
the
comparison
An
picture
to
to
appears
from
will
exclusion
might
follow
from
those
Describing the
of all in order
and
of
same
of
with
possible
argue
discussed
its
will
be
also
same
dependen
in-
an
on
tone,
however,
it may
of
viewpoint,
neither
one
be. There
would
theorem
of
the width
to
quences
conse-
The
below.
what
genius,or
is called
principle,establishing
a
that
abstract
work
could
features
survival
of the
and
be
resonance
called
found
are
evoking
universality,
is
mathematical
of the cultural
earth, irrespective
and
is generally
such
concept,
masterpiece,
number
of
tures,
fea-
each
essential
to
group
considerations,based
as
its
work
the
followed
degree
of the
consistent, as
mediatory
more
nerstone
cor-
mentioned,
group
picture with
our
be
picture developed
available
the space
wish
and
genius to
practicalconsiderations
also
statesmanship,
and realistic
selfish purposes
shows
that the exclusion
our
that
of
our
the
in
not
truthful
incorrect,as
nor
sciences,
as
by many
geniuses.
picture of a genius,
greatness
the work
that the
correct
do
merely
us
picture.In
said
say
since the
state
us
of
is the
an
missing
granted. We
Let
opponents.
with
chieflyby
incorrect
for
taken
evident
is
of
result
motives
opponent
be
and
arts
realm
people in the
as
justified
motivated
being
causes.
we
rightly be
model
our
of
men
Carnegie, considered
and
exclusion
genius, to
of famous
comprising unselfish
as
can
This
recapitulation.
brief
concept,
our
militaryoperations and
are
short time
of power.
with, worth
meet
restriction
be
time, the
striction,
picture of genius, as developed, contains an essential reof the disagreement
mentioned
severally,and, because
might
The
is effective in such
and
many
the
with
compared
to
the effect
danger of triviality
that of lightning,the more
so
as
that, without
with
189
it
of the Genius
one
of
genius.Two
in
this search:
in
people
differences
between
all
over
their
high
the
try
coun-
resulting
high degree of universality,
product
for future
times, a requirement
based
add
on
a
concrete
of
more
the Genius
future
add
must
achievements"
past
later
will
we
times.
certain
of
characteristics
more
in those of
masterpieces,remarkably even
prefer,naturalness,
tragicfundamental
or, if you
tone; sincerity,
sometimes
as
a
spice, yet
against artificial means,
necessary
found
humor,
as
picture we
nature:
others
these
concerning
this
of
experiences with
our
word
To
Nature
The
190
in
in
abundant
never
most
strength,impressing the
force
creative
viewer
listener
or
behind
the
of power
feature
elusive
work; the
great
with
nearly
complexity, or
work;
character, differentiating
a
great
human
super-
dimensional
multi-
the
from
work
or
light
a
qualityinvolving portrayal
kind; and finally
in later epochs.
of the times, of value for reconstructive
purposes
or
one-dimensional
work
of
a
genius;
second
to
the
at
definition
create
correct.
are
pointed
out,
of the
two
is
not
is
genius
able
man
obvious
at
present,
the
between
the
two,
because
mainly
brain
its
coincide, if they
must
man
correlation
casual
works.
infancy.In
of
It
we
as
our
was
phasized
em-
thousand
two
judge
now
on
nature
then
esteemed
man,
permits
described.
definitions of the
complete
work
obtained
picture thus
genius:
man,
of the kind
work
By logic,the
the
time
same
call
now
we
and
nically
tech-
formatio
factual in-
available.
points of
Several
given
its
be
can
roots
not
by
A
further
point of
perfect.A
the
third
of
into
the
depths of
relation
sincerityof the
point in
may
work.
be
the
a
the
appeal of the
the
human
is inventiveness
pictures
two
masterpiece has
genius,although
universal
correlation
work,
between
appeal of
universal
mind
identical. The
its reach
of
originality
call and
The
discerned.
in the universal
are
correlation
casual
two
work
mind
in
correspondence
found
between
These
is
and
genius
which
the
cepts
con-
is
plained
ex-
life.
and
nearly
compulsory
the necessity
examples justify
of the Genius
Picture
of
twofold
our
191
at
present
be
can
We
famous
that
is
people
achievements
such
only in historyand
like the Roland
Thinking
than
say,
what
over
works
art
magne
Charleleft
deal with
as
and
requires
more
precisely this
of
This
of science.
science
assessment
along
with
point
out
as
far
as
of
genius
such
here
the
not
difference
realms
two
in
Scientific facts do
its
possess
the
humanity
on
science
the
with
compared
The
this
ancients
of
science, of today
In
moderate
the
lighton
for
work
us
to
in
two
art
years
have
we
thus
problem, genius.Our
predict with
human
From
status
of future
what
we
element
tragedies
delivered
science
to
of
the
the
awaits
hence.
succeeded
twofold
was
do
as
fate
same
in
shedding some
makes
it possible
view
probabilitywhether
some
generally possible,since
scientific
and
science, particularlytheoretical
and
thousand
fashion
will survive.
rectly
di-
not
the need
to
the ancient
today'sscrutiny. The
achievements
great
whole.
the restricted
stems
the
of the work:
permanence
stand
can
criterions
as
art, in addition
absence
to
domains
two
main
in the same
form
appreciatedtoday essentially
through the ages, whereas
only fractions of
us
go
interest,however,
of the
specializedknowledge.
are
not
do
characteristics,
human
main
do-
the
beings,disregardingsecondary technical
benefits of
also influences
hold
the
with
would
we
between
One
deep-rooted
not
human
interest in pure
of
is concerned.
of
is indicative
connection
is of
difference
significant
masterpiece is
medical
opinion. It
extreme
that
surprising,one
specializedknowledge
is
were
problem
our
touch
corded
re-
their lives,
from
problem, genius. Attempts of excluding specialists
of the
no
are
have
we
than
art
since
True,
art.
proper
of
said of
was
might
picture. Their
second
military victories
the
of
group
have
of Metternich
diplomatic maneuvers
world
conditions;their achievements
present
upon
more
the
by
substantial
the
or
trace
justifiedalso
short-lived:
are
of
exclusion
our
said, such
not
times. Errors
know
are
the
very
contemporary
predictionis
not
artistic
and
taste
easilymade.
Such
master
with
is
Nature
The
192
Hoffmann
as
equal admiration
and
Sibelius
or
will
considered
be
results,one
of the
sure
criteria
of
estimate
their
lack
noted
value.
true
day
in
accurate
apply
make
to
find
is often
and
known,
them
perhaps sinceritymay
and
the case,
draw
an
writings of Mann,
the
and
various
our
should
in the
might
one
resort
which
men,
from
conclusions
to
in
the
most
to
man
Even
is,however,
the
large
amount
before
time
for the
As
genuine call,the
lacked
in
of
turning
the
he
man,
sense,
did
the
criterion of
light music
not
have
lines,he devised
as
which
he
had
is
of
black
have
to
seems
for
quite
symphonies.
to
to
have
twelve-tone
romantic,
men
of Sibelius,he
tinuing
con-
ties
personali-
criteria of
of Shaw
is that
lacked
in his
system.
In
early work
inventiveness
Schonberg.
musical
in
for
As
musical
theory, having
composition he started
Verklarte
enough
of
inventiveness
although he certainlypossessedit in
founded
be
appears
satisfythe
case
be
nature
chief
being infallible;
predictions.Thus,
making
to
appear
far from
course,
against him.
mark
help
Mann
or
genius,except
the
useful
is,of
it can
previous illustrations,
of Shaw
he
be
attempting this, we
In
humor
originality,
of
instances is well
to
years
and
first,
in order
of contemporary
study of the personality
it
of
hundred
more
can
masters
satisfied
whereas
First,one
of present
the works
to
make
to
try
can
the
ilarly
Sim-
of the last.
Utilizing our
not
first
unknown.
as
two
great
feel
might
personally,one
now;
doubts
be
good
as
The
Naumann.
ris
equal depreciationof Longfellow,Bryant, one MorWillis. It is impossibleto foretell today whether
Shaw,
one
Mann
well
and
Music
with
Helicon
from
latter
Church
Neiv
connoisseur
true
the
and
Hasse
Haydn,
highly appreciatedtoday,
Poe,
of the Genius
to
create
Nacht.
new
Realizing
along
which, operating on
out
those
the basis
36
A
into
glance
We
by
extraordinary
of
today.
outlook
should
without
out
final.
be
is
Details
venturing
the
subspecies with
coexistence
the
of
form
similar
development
the
genius
fact,
in
it is
planet
our
on
be
cannot
given
possibilitystands
One
coexistence
is the
courses.
dis-
our
developed
to
species
our
of guesses.
realm
old, instead
offers
be
impossible;
means
this
that
in
breeding, resulting
subspecies,
no
of
others, and
among
by
present
into
Mendelian
planned
qualities of that
The
attempted
was
subspecies might
new
and
most
that
eugenics
FUTURE
future
humanity's
envisaged
of
means
in
DISTANT
THE
of
the
human
new
of
interesting conjectures
which
do
we
not
sue
pur-
further.
final
One
we
solar
system
of
duration
of
creation
will
survival?
that
will
It
might
situation
The
should
supplant
fare
would
of
status
of
little
of
under
the
artistic
least
at
from
is then
with
thought
confidence
a
survive.
and
our
There
of
as
is
long
as
which
no
scientific
the
earth,
on
catastrophe
basic
degree
that
else
that
major
also
own
our
prospective
the
nearly everything
some
reason
ments
achieve-
fascination
for
even
come.
quite radically if
change
present
our
entirely different
will
genius
differently.
science
science
to
said
forever;
heart-warming
earth, barring
the
retain
to
be
great
our
not
It is
When
masterpieces.
necessarily mean,
contrast
may
of
generations
remote
was
in
genius,
sapiens inhabits
assume
the
indefinitely.What
that
unlikely,works
to
last
not
perish.
not
homo
is
not
will
of
permanence
do
lasting, we
say,
the
about
matter
It
one.
is
those
our
In
nearly
this
present
antiquity"
significance; there
we
one.
was
194
it
By
our
thinking
are
no
science
respect
impossible
circumstances:
subspecies
new
envisage
to
be
might
present
of
development
and
exact
on
art
the
level
judgment,
sciences-
worth
speak-
The
Middle
years
altogether,a
the
In
of the
eyes
variant, our
the
And
will
there
the
among
medicine,
born
be
more
all,such
at
as
retain
Our
of
works
great
scientific theories.
enjoyment from
with
aeons
incomprehensible
if for
even
that the
Sistine
that
ever
the eye,
and
While
the
of
the
and
sphere
different
with
such
the
is thinkable
be
with
in
the
Waldstein
Sonata
We
the
or
those
quite possible,
apt
are
ours
of
value
this is
All
that the
will appear
art
our
pared
com-
from
different
so
imagine.
to
easy
from
even
such
if these
development
have
foregoing,we
our
not
short
mind; it
will
artistic
derive
elapsedis
documents.
historical
mentioned
As
erroneous.
them, thus
to
perishablethan
the time
dealt
absurd
is less
think
to
frescos
in
the
are
of
value
the
might
the
truly imperishable,since they are among
produced by the human
species.We forget,however,
Chapel
greatest
of
beauty
in
dilemmas
to
us
course,
variant
new
and
shrink
might
the
for survival,as
antiquity and
of
art
have
we
problems and
our
of
Only
one.
times; some
chance
beauty
be
cannot
Of
life of the
emotional
works
Beauty
them.
the
bility,
possi-
permanence
limited
better
that
still appreciatethe
before, we
that
stand
art
It is understandable
mentioned.
the
significance
only.
historical
only
not
are
distant
those
until
survive
will
parts
that
is
greatest
very
if certain
correct;
in-
paltry,insignificant.
appear
scientific
partly
appear
Even
In the
our
today, is
today.
empiricaldisciplines
less
or
branches
new
sciences
exact
it
oretical
science, the the-
present
discarded.
be
to
altogether,
they will
be invalid
not
know
we
experimental, may
195
Ages; science, as
new
than
so
more
Future
these are
only three thousand
years old. And
trifle in the historyof the earth.
hundred
about
Distant
of
latter
of
paid no
interest
homo
masterpieces depends
to
change,
value
also
subspecieswas
new
attention
other
sapiens in
the
to
the
planets with
various
still
the
ear
changes.
considered
in
possibleextension
beings
intelligent
respects.
more
upon
Our
mingling
radicallywith
our
The
196
traditions
and
Nature
of the Genius
our
past.
is another, rather
There
science
factor. While
curious
develops
them
into
continually,absorbing the previous states, assimilating
shrinks
their originalvolume
new
a
status, and in this manner
virtuallyto
If the
process
in the
drop
books, the
the
valuable
going
process
in
on
the
institutes will
and
the
will
of
thousand
ten
have
place
no
receiving capacityof
with
all
accommodate
to
years,
overcrowded
work,
be
on
goes
ocean
art
will
size in
with
happen
in
shrunk
have
such
no
in the
lost) as
is
of
drama
arts.
small fraction,there
ences
audi-
concert
mulated
accu-
result in a
long past. This must
during the, alas, too
devaluation
of works of genius through no fault of anyone,
merely
This devaluation
acquired by accumulation.
by the crushing volume
will take place even
disregarding the possible changes in
and
ears
The
eyes.
final result of
will be
circumstances
all these
that
only
very
chiefly for
works
part
of
two
the
out
in
Second,
relative concept.
this book
involved,
times
and
arts
their
significance;
their
to
was
be
given
in
the
lose
day
one
future
is
of
out
geniusthroughby pointing
justification
concept
further
that,
cherished
most
our
permanence
pointed out
in mind
in science, might
restricted
our
been
keep
to
even
the
have
matters
First, it is good
reasons.
long
of genius,both
of
These
the contrary.
vein, on
because
of the
greatest
very
greatest
in
the
far
future.
It is
a
lucky
distant
that
future.
plenty.Because
of
we
A
our
do
look
not
into
necessarilyhave
the
next
few
to
look
thousand
into
such
years
is
The
tion
and
to
of
that
span
And
actions.
discuss
the
of
it
mystery,
time
is
Distcmt
is
from
more
this
genius,
Future
than
viewpoint
humanity's
197
enough
that
greatest
to
we
guide
have
asset.
our
views
attempted
INDEX
E.,
Barlach,
(Aristophanes),
Acharnians
Acidity
in
Actors,
41
la
de
Scenes
Drawings,
B., 59,
Bartok
of
Thebes,
Against
mal,
68,
146
168,
43,
Sonata,
191
Ch.,
Th.,
Arnim,
v.,
Sarah,
Bible,
(Arnim
Horn
43
64
B.,
177
L., 58
Bonheur
(Verlaine),
Borodin,
A.,
172
(Leonardo),
63
163
Boltzmann,
Painting
of
Bernhardt,
Blacher,
Magic
Brentano),
and
Art
146
172
Youth's
The
H.,
Bizet, G.,
146
159
Berlioz, L.
The
Acharnians,
A.
137
177
Aristophanes,
195
73
H.,
Bergson,
107
45
Archimedes,
The
Berg, Alban,
73
(Nietzsche),
Aquinas,
159
33
science,
international,
Appeal,
166,
Sonata,
Waldstein
H.
159,
182
166,
Symphony
Ninth
in
152,
113,
195
182,
100
Alcoholism,
Antichrist
49
100,
96,
69,
Kreutzer
Andersen,
141
92
(Rostand),
Analogy
100,
26, 49,
Beethoven,
196
146,
genius,
UAiglon
177
147
168,
Age
167
172,
159,
Ch.,
du
Fleurs
Seven
The
167
Notebook
89
(Vergil),
Aeschylus,
58
146
Baudelaire,
Aeneid
privee, 51,
150
biochemistry,
Endre,
Ady,
vie
55
46
36
H.,
Bosch,
103
Artist
CI.,
Brentano,
55
172
(Dostoyevsky)
Karamazov
Brothers
34
172
Brahms,
41
(Picasso),
Aubade
173
12
reproducing,
Artiste,
of,
law
Boyle-Mariotte,
creative,
142
Australopithecus,
Avariciousness,
120
Elizabeth,
Browning,
70
A.,
Bruckner,
B
Te
Bach,
Deum,
180
69,
20
20
Goldberg
P.,
Brueghel,
147
Variations,
Well-tempered
Clavichord,
drolatiques,
Biichner,
62
20,
Symphony,
Ninth
111
Georg,
39
Buddenbrooks
182
Busch,
W.,
Byron,
G.
182
199
123
159
(Th.
172
G,
57, 107
Mann),
142
Nature
The
200
of the
Genius
David
Caprichos (Goya),
Bur
Camiina
Carnegie, A.,
Mary,
Debussy, CI.,
Degas, E., 181
152
189
Cassatt,
Delius, F.,
111
Desire
Cezanne,
A., 13,
P., 38,
Chagall,ML,
Chaminade,
survival, 25
for
Devrient, L., 31
51
181
153
David
111
(Verlaine), 55
elle
pour
Character, 67
The
Pickwick
Papers, 157,
32
Discovery, scientific,
Disinfection,
Charlemagne,
Chaucer,
G.,
Child
Divina
Commedia
Doctor
Faustus
(Op. 25),
Donne,
The
Brothers
Idiot, 157
Possessed, 166
The
Dream,
171
Dumas
17
Compulsion,quasi-external,
Ecce
Copernicus, N.,
between
G,
Creative
and
man
work
of,
153
A., 34
68
Egocentricism,
Emerson,
genius,30
of
light,171
music, 40
of
Emancipation
R.
Equivalence
of
114
women,
W.,
22, 52
and
mass
energy,
W.,
Ethics, 67
12
of, 67
relativity
Curie
Euclid, 144
couple, 51
Cyrano
(Nietzsche),
36
Critic, 147
Marie,
77
Electromagnetictheory
Cristofori, B., 40
Crookes,
Homo
Electronic
123
in
act
A.,
pere,
190
70, 181
Craft, mastery
Cranach, L.,
142
31
Edison, Th.
genius,8,
Courbet,
Karamazov,
Euclidian
112
de
Bergerac (Rostand),
157
geometry,
144
Eugenics,122,
126, 194
Euripides,41,
157, 168
Origin of
Daumier, H., 177
David, J. L.,
Charlotte
149
Faraday, M.,
Species, 149
Faust
Val
d'Ognes,
170
(Goethe),
Fermi, E.,
170
du
166
149
157,
141,
63
Correlation
100,
The
42
124
Conciseness,
17, 102,
J., 8
Dostoyevsky, F.,
VII, Pope, 84
Complexity,
12, 175
Mann),
141
flatmajor
Chromosome,
Clement
(Dante),
(Th.
116
apparent, 116
Chopin, Fr., 35, 42, 44, 64, 100, 167, 170
G
172
12
prodigy,37,
Etude
179
191
E., 127
Chausson,
157, 172,
140,
176, 179
C,
Chansons
127
83
P.
Cerenkov,
168
90
Cavalieri,T.',
Cellini,B.,
140
Daydreaming, 31
158
(Orff),
ana
Copperfield (Dickens),
52
11
Nature
The
202
Road
Hyperion,
Holz, Arno,
Dafnis,
Homer,
182
172
Kollwitz, Kathe,
111
Kreutzer
(Beethoven),
Sonata
166
90
Lady
22, 179
A.
Chatterley's Lover
Larousse
v., 50
Last
D., 150
dictionary,140
155
Hybrid,
123
(Leonardo),
Supper
D.
Lawrence,
Humor,
(Lawrence),
50, 182
87
sex,
Humboldt,
Hume,
34
166
Homosexuality,
Hormone,
China,
to
107
Kodaly, Z.,
182
166
Horace,
Toadspawn
from
Kleist,H.,
107
Odyssey,
of the Genius
57
Chatterley'sLover, 50,
Lady
182
Lee, T. D., 13
Lehar, F., 173
168
Ghosts, 42,
167
Peer
157
The
Gynt,
Idiot
(Dostoyevsky),157
Leonardo
The
Art
Last
Supper,
Liszt,F" 63,
34
Impressionists,
Induction, electromagnetic,
Locke,
Ingres,J. A.,
Lombroso,
12
170
d'Haussonville, 170
Comtesse
17, 74,
102
in
Inventiveness
C,
103
Longfellow,H. W.,
A.,
H.
life of
Love
of,
act
172
J., 150
Lorentz,
Insanity,103
34
Inspiration,
Inventors,
57
Leverkiihn, Adrian,
Lister, J., 12
Illness,98
Invention,
of Painting, 36
192
171
genius,87
30
genius,29
of the Universe,
Nature
The
Luther, Martin,
33
190
17
Jealousy,69
Mach,
Jesus, 23
Jokai, M.,
Maecenas,
The
The
141
Landowner,
New
Joyce, J.,9,
gun's Wake,
Ulysses, 153, 169
G., 69,
of
Man
Manet,
Tunnel,
Mann,
142
Helmet
138
31
of Stephane Mallarme, 31
Thomas,
Buddenbrooks,
142
Kepler, J.,75
Krull,
E.,
Portrait
181
Landing,
34
162,
188
the Golden
(Rembrandt),
59
165
genius,6,
with
Man
Kafka, F.,
(Th. Mann)
S., 31
Mallarme,
The
G. C, 22
Magic Mountain
Mahler,
153
151
180
141
Finne
E., 47,
Doctor
182
Felix
203
Index
The
The
Aurelius,
Marcus
The
Landowner
New
Newton,
mechanics,
Newtonian
11
(Jokai), 141
145
Marriage
89
of artists,
Antichrist, 107
of
Ecce
85
scientists,
Homo,
153
K., 175
Ninth
Symphony
(Beethoven),
Ninth
Symphony
(Bruckner),
Marx,
Maupassant, G.,
Maxwell,
Medici,
J. C,
176
171
Lorenzo,
24
Odyssey
Niirnberg
Meistersinger von
Die
139, 159
(Wagner),
Meitner, Lise,
112
creation, 54
Merry
Bur ana,
152
149
forced, 153
Ostwald,
Wm.,
47
(Shakespeare),138
of Windsor
Wives
Parents
(Shakespeare),140
K.
Metternich,
W.,
Minotaur
omachia
Mobiles,
154
(Picasso),
genius,93
of,
Parthenon,
171
Pascal, B.,
Paul
103
Peer
13
98
HI, Pope, 84
Gynt (Ibsen), 157
Perception,depth of, 48
Modigliani,A.,
musical, 41
Performers,
153
Perseverance,
42
157
56
Petofi,Sandor,
89
Philosophy, 151
Tartujfe, 157
CL,
of
Parity,nonconservation
191
Monet,
152
Originality,149
of Venice
Moissi, A.,
age of
123
splitting,
Merchant
166, 176
genius,95
Ontogenesis,119
Old
Carmina
Mendel, G. J.,123
Mendelssohn,
(Homer),
Orff, C,
Memory, 52
as
handicap to
trainingof, 53
Mendelian
159
20
168, 179
of,
concept
Photography,
Phylogenesis,119
180
Mood
of
genius,62, 155
of work
of genius,156
Morgenstern, Ch., 103
Mozart,
W.
century,
40, 159
Pickwick
181
34
181
Minotaur
74
twentieth
Aubade,
Guernica, 103
omachia,
Music
of,
Embrace,
177, 196
love
Pianoforte, 40
Papers
103
(Dickens),
157
Plagiarism,152
N
Platen, A.
Nature, love
of, 72
Plato, 45,
Nernst,
28
Play of
Napoleon I,
W.,
v.,
37
53
Dreams
(Strindberg) 31
,
Nature
The
204
E.
Poe,
A.,
Quack
100,
of Helicon,
Poincare, H.,
Power,
102,
192
151
de
Bergerac,
Rousseau, Henri,
166
Praxiteles,9,
of Cnidus,
Predictions
182
contemporaries,192
on
Prokofieff,S., 9,
158
Rousseau,
J. J., 175
Rudeness,
77
Rutherford, E.,
160
157
158, 180
Sleeping Gypsy,
182
Aphrodite
Romeo
of the Genius
12
Juliet,160
and
Prolificness,61
Proust, M., 39, 51, 58, 73, 74, 91, 100,
152, 176,
A
Sachs, Hans,
139
Saint-Saens, C,
180
la recherche
du
temps
perdu, 51,
Samson
and
Delilah, 183
Sappho,
Pseudogenius, 127
Scenes
Q
mechanics, 58,
114
91, 111
Sauer, Emil,
Quantum
99, 183
de
42
la vie
58
151
Schizophrenia,104
R
Schonberg, A.,
Rabelais, 157,
Gargantua,
Raphael,
Realism
A
Schopenhauer, A.,
169
192
158
168
Ravel, ML,
Nacht,
Verklarte
169
192
Aphorismen
151
of women,
la recherche
112
du
Schumann
perdu
temps
Refinement,
Lebensweisheit,
zur
158
100
Kreisleriana,108
176
169
Scientists, 11
Religiousart,
Rembrandt
163
Selection
Rijn, 38,
van
59, 62,
89,
126
artificial,
138, 181
Man
the Golden
with
Helmet,
natural, 120
138
Semmelweis,
Renoir, A.,
I.
P.,
12
181
164
Sentimentality,
145
A., 91,
des
Ring
(Aeschylus), 146
Sevigne,Marquise de,
170
94
Sex, 85,
Nibelungen
(Wagner),
152
58,
111
178
Shakespeare,W.,
Balzac,
188
188
Bronze
The
Burghers of Calais,166
Eternal
Age,
Spring,
Roentgen,
W.
Song,
Hamlet,
138
Merchant
The
Roland
Against Thebes
Seven
The
B., 98,
K.,
191
182
12
163
of Venice, 138
The
Merry Wives
of Windsor,
Winter's
Tale, 152, 157
Sharaku,
140
140
205
Index
Days,
In Good
Shelley,P. B., 57
Shostakovich, D.,
160
Siegfried (Wagner),
Terborch, G.,
158
Venus
La
Tristram
180
Shandy,
182
visite,158
Tristan
160
und
Isolde
Tuberculosis,
Twelve-tone
40
Bat,
34
Sonata, 167,
Transmutation, atomic,
180
153
Stockhausen, K.,
Player,
Toxin, bacterial,102
Tragic elements, 156
Journey,
Sternheim, C,
the Lute
War
Peace, 157
Toulouse-Lautrec, H., 50, 100, 158, 177
151
Sentimental
genius,174
and
Southampton,Earl of, 90
50
of
196
and
Kreutzer
Spencer, H.,
D.,
work
Tolstoy, L. N.,
168
39
70
H.
Titian, 34,
music,
Pealer, 158
and
Times
161
Sincerity,
75
Society,
12
(Wagner),
42
100
Schonberg's,192
system
173
Salome,
Temperament,
Thoreau,
37
20
equal,in
Tesla, N.,
Sibelius,J., 192
38
(Bruckner),
Apple
Shyness,77
Der
Deum
Te
177
The
Technique,
183
159
183
Oaks
Dumbarton
Strindberg,A., 31,
160
Unselfishness,21
Utrillo,M., 154
143
Death
Dance, 167
Play of Dreams,
Universality
of genius,44
of masterpiece,137
31
Style,152
mind,
Subconscious
Suicide,
Vanity,27,
106
Sullivan, A.
The
Values, philosophyof,
32
S.,
Mikado,
Suppe, F.,
Survival
69
173
Vavilov, S. I.,13,
173
Vavilov-Cerenkov
51
radiation,13,
of
genius,26,
Swift, J.,100,,175
Gulliver's
Travels,
143
Venus
the
and
Lute
175
Vergil, 147
Aeneid,
147
E.,
13
Tartuffe (Moliere),
Tchaikovsky, P. I.,47
Tchekov,
Teaching,
A.,
82
163
Player (Titian),
34
Syphilis,100
Tamm,
51
Velasquez,D. R., 63
138
of work
I.
151
157
Amies,
91
Bonheur,
55
Chansons
pour
Lorsque
Vermeer,
tu
elle,55
cherches
J., 38
Villon, F., 71
169
tes
puces,
169
Nature
The
206
T.,
Vischer,
F.
Vivaldi,
A.,
147
F.
M.,
Voltaire,
of
the
Genius
Whitman,
58
W.,
Miracles,
175
83,
27,
59,
167
167
Of
Persons
Wilde,
O.,
Arrived,
167
168
w
Winkler,
R.,
Wagner,
113,
37,
152,
139,
68,
171,
159,
L.,
107,
89,
70,
'singer
genius,
111
Niirnberg,
von
of
Work
C.
Wu,
and
58,
genius,
S.,
6,
13
152
37
Tannhauser,
Tristan
Nibelungen,
des
Ring
Siegfried,
War
(Shakespeare),
183
159
139,
Der
101
Tale
Winter's
Woman
Meister
Die
58,
42,
X
183
Isolde,
und
X-rays,
(Tolstoy),
Peace
12,
150
42
157
Weininger,
Well-tempered
Werckmeister,
Otto,
11,
Clavichord
A.,
39
106
(Bach),
39
Yang,
Youth
C.
of
N.,
13
genius,
92
137
152,
157