Show GENIUS AND CHARACTER genius has an infinitely deeper reverence for character than character can have for genius to be sure genius gets the worlds praise because its work is a tangible product to be brought or had for nothing it bribes the common voice to praise it by presents of speeches poems statues pictures or whatever it can please with character evolves its best products for home consumption but mind you it takes a deal moie more to feed a family for thirty years than to make a holiday feast for our neighbors once or twice in our lives you talk of the fire of genius many a blessed woman who dies unsung and mem bared has given out more of bf the real vital heat that keeps the life in human souls without a cpr spark a k flitting through her hum ble chimney achl 4 to tell the world ab about 0 it 1 it athan than would set a dozen theo theories ri es smoking k ing ora or a hundred odes simmering in the brains of so many any men of genius oliver holmes |