| Show self conic ausness and genius anything like self consciousness is impossible in the supreme operation of genius writes henry M alden in harper s magazine for february if the creator becomes soon or late the cynosure of all eyes the recognition and response accorded him are in evitable but incidental he has ere abed a world whose wonders are the delight of all who behold and when ho has created it he may himself see that it is good it Is the veil of his personality its only true revelation also it is in that world he hides as god is hidden in his creation the actual facts of hla life his individual opinions and habits are to another generation insignificant except to idle curiosity |