GENIUS AND INSANITY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 12

GENIUS AND INSANITY.

ii- ; —-r: —6 :iijfr/- 1 :':-':.'.///K'- -/:.:/ ■ :'"' : ' A groat : man,' who - died tho- other ' day; Cosarp' Xombroao, gives a remarkablo account ;'pf jthat lnrid- Of, precocity-,iri his-book-on "Tho: Man/of Gfinius, which, though almost '- without • valuo as a-sdientifld work, in/ one 'of: the ;riohest' .store-houses . 'pksonali.'.anecdotb. .. jn; Jsi.tho'iSort.Pf thing; \ol>W^>,w£c)i^ : of ~age, wroto a s'oiiiiot'-' to'"Beat'rico;-'-TassO ;wrPto • versos • at, tdhV. : , Pascal- /and/COm'to ■ wero' gkat . thinkers /at/thp'ageof: thirteen.''. at .fifteen, Nie-: btlhr, at seven,, Jonathau 'Edwards at twelve,". :Jliphelangclo at Qassotidi (the ''Littlo at'.fbUri-Bbssuot'.atftvvolvej''and"'Vol-taire; At thirteen. ';.Pico. dd: la -Mirandola 'kriow: Latin,- Greek, Hobrow, Chaldeo, and: Arable in his childiiood j-■ Gbathq ■ wroto a story in ;vlhhgunges/iyhim ; /lib/was /scarcely \ton; Wieland ' kuew: I.atin at seven, meditated an PpiO; poem'at thirteen, nnd at sixteen'published : his. poem, "Die Vollkommensto Welt" Lbpe«. de-la ;Vega/composed his first'verses at twelve,': Calderon at. thirteen.' : ICotzebuo was trying 'i to 'yrito at : soveri,':': and f at' oightoen his first,-tragedy, was acted.. Schillor ynsf;pn!y:,: nineteen'.'when: his epoch-making ■ .Raubdr,' r ;:..aippearod;';':, -Yictor ;Hugo . composed at twenty -had - alrcady;published "Han d': Islando,-'."Bug-Tar-gali-v and . tho '.first volumo of "Odes ft Ballades'' ; iamennais .at - silicon dictated ' tho' "Paroles d'un /:Croyailt.- J ;. Meyerboer at : five played oxcellontly- on 'tho ,piano. Claudo Jo.'Soph .Vornct drew;; very .wall ,at four, and at twenty was already a celebrated,painter..': At .thirtceri Wren ,invented: an ' 'nstrortomical in--.strumont; 1 arid,.offered - his fathetr.'-.yrith-ti'' .Latiii dedication.'' '" •-:.'. . ? . This i« T)tit a part of tho catalogue, which ends'--;with': .dictum : ■ "This pl'ocdCityi'iSTmbtbid'Siid -.atavistic rit "may" bo' Ob.sc-fycd.-;among,: all : savages; / The children of ths insane are.,ofton precocious." ': ::