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Show H' THE WAYS Or QENIU8. H Phytlcal'Weakness Marked Many ol j the World's Greatest. Hk Of certain peculiarities of genius H; Dr. Andrew Wilson writes: "It is no H uncommon thing to 11 ml your genius H n physically wenk innn. It is not Hj your robust, linlc, strong imliriilunl H' wo linvo in our mind's eye ns ropro- H1 ecnfntivo of the usual type of the K gciiiis. Contrariwise, most of them H lirvo been wenkly in id ninny niliug. H; Gout, we tire told, marked llarvcy, H Milton, Gibbons, Newton nnd Stun- H: ucl Johnson, nnd consumption H' mnrked Kents, l'ricstley, Sterne nnd H Hlnek for its own. Tlic phthisical i scries nrc noted to he of restless (lis- ' position, eager nnd feverishly nctivc, H while the gouty lpe is more inns- H Five, with patient energy, slowly but H' surely doiuinnting its tusk. Wo can H ninko pictures of Kents nnd the grent B lcxieogrnplrr ns illustrative of thi? H' contrnst. H "Xervous ailments, eccentricity of H innmier nnd defects of. speech have H also to be leckoncd with when the H physical constitution of the gciius H, falls to he ronsidered. There nrc records of defects of speech, for in- Hi stance, of stnniincring nnd of nwk- Hi, wnrd or spasmodic movements of Hbi the limbs. There nro nlso to he Hb noted fieipicnl sight nbei ration nnd Hi1. illegible culliprnpliy although as Hi, regards the latter feature genius is HH by no meant needful to be evoked ns Hi n pvimnry cause. -Hh "Nor shall we feel surprised if Hi many genivres arc tabulated as of Hw bhy, retiring nnturc nnd ns of difll- HS' dent manners, nnd melancholy has Hi' marked m?"y for" its own. liittlo HJ wonder that thero should be some HJ waiit of relationship between the Hli genius and the ordinary world, for Hi t this last phase of things is to be ex- HJ pec ted in a man who lives largely in Hh a world of his own unking." |