Show GENIUS AND LABOR there are two distinctive kinds of genius although t there e e is but one kind of labor T there e e is the genius which is patient I 1 toilsome persevering which accomplishes comp lishes something which becomes com es known there is also the genius which is careless indolent occupied with the present indifferent to results this is is usually brilliant often more brilliant than the other but its recognition is apt to be limited and its influence fleeting it is likely to be mistaken for talent for the general opinion of genius is s so high as to hold that it must make maize itself widely felt and assume some sort of permanence the former rind kind may be called productive it is of the more fortunate sort the latter convulsive vi til sive and being convulsive is unrecorded this is like to be purely personal to depend upon time and occasion to be prod prodigal g al to waste itself in a hundred unworthy ways any account of it Ts hs preserved mainly as tradition for its character is such that it cannot be accurately understood out of its own atmosphere i mo espere sphere |