Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws And Consequences
Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws And Consequences
Francis Galton
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He is a being with a predisposition which with him is irresistible — a bent which he cannot in any way avoid ; whether it drags him to the abstruse researches of erudition, or induces him LITERARY MEN. 169 to mount into the fervid and turbulent atmosphere of imaginatioa" The majority of the men described in the appendix to this chapter justify the description by Mr. Disraeli Again, that the powers of many of them were of the highest order, no one can doubt Several were prodigies in boyhood, as ...Grotius, Lessing, and Niebuhr; many others were distinguished in youth ; Charlotte Bronte published "Jane Eyre" set 22 ; Chateaubriand was of note at an equally early age ; F^ndon made an impression when only 15 ;. Sir Philip Sydney was of high mark before he was 21, and had acquired his great fame, and won the heart of the nation in a few more years, for he was killed in battle when only 32. I may add, that there are occasional cases of great literary men having been the reverse of gifted in youth.
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