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Show sition as a "sport" among animals and plantJ, and is th product of that variability vari-ability whioh ii the postulate of selection, selec-tion, both natural and artificial. On the general ground that a strong, and therefore markedly abnormal, variety ia ii.i (i i(o not likely to be ao well in harmony with existing conditions at the normal itandard (which has been brought to what it is largely bv the operation of those conditions), I should say that a large proportion of "genua- porta" are likely to come to grief physically and aocially, and that the intensily'of feeling, which is one of the condititiona of genius, if especially liable to run into insanity. G.niu.. Prof. Huxley. Genius, to my mind, maans innate capacity of any' kind above the average aver-age mental level. From a biological point of view, I should say that a genius gen-ius among men stands in the same po- |