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Lifted out of this lethargy by the tumult within them, they imagined that it was Divinity, which came down to visit and exercise them Those whom heaven has branded for evil or for good are more or less subject to these symptoms; they reveal them more or less frequently, more or less violently. Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. Moreau de Tours , who delighted in the least verisimilar aspects of truth, in his solid monograph, Psychologie Morbide , and J.
Schilling, in his Psychiatrische Briefe , endeavoured to show, by researches that were very copious although not very strict in method, that genius is always a neurosis, and often a true insanity. Radestock, in his Genie und Wahnsinn Breslau, , added little to the solution of the problem, as he merely copied, for the most part, from his predecessors, without profiting greatly by their work.
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Tebaldi, who, in his book Ragione e Pazzia Milan, , brings fresh documents to the literature of insanity; and, finally, that acute thinker and brilliant writer, Pisani-Dossi, who has given us a curious study, [10] which is a monograph on madness in art; as in my Tre Tribuni I have attempted to do with the insane and semi-insane in their relation to politics. T HE paradox that confounds genius with neurosis, however cruel and sad it may seem, is found to be not devoid of solid foundation when examined from various points of view which have escaped even recent observers.
Alienists have noted certain characters which very frequently, though not constantly, accompany these fatal degenerations. Such, on the physical side, are prominent ears, deficiency of beard, irregularity of teeth, excessive asymmetry of face and head, which may be very large or very small, sexual precocity, smallness or disproportion of the body, lefthandedness, stammering, rickets, phthisis, excessive fecundity, neutralized afterwards by abortions or complete sterility, with constant aggravation of abnormalities in the children.
Without doubt many alienists have here fallen into exaggerations, especially when they have sought to deduce degeneration from a single fact. But, taken on the whole, the theory is irrefutable; every day brings fresh applications and confirmations. Among the most curious are those supplied by recent studies on genius.
The signs of degeneration in men of genius they show are sometimes more numerous than in the insane. Let us examine them. The simplest of these, which struck our ancestors and has passed into a proverb, is the smallness of the body. A little man. When the coffin of St. Francis Xavier was opened at Goa in , the body was found to be only four and a half feet in length. Gregory, Orationes XIV. It was ascertained by Marro [12] that this is one of the most frequent signs of degeneration in the morally insane.
Demosthenes, Aristotle, Cicero, Giotto, St. Cranium and Brain. The last three are said to have acquired their genius as a result of the accident, having been unintelligent before. It is the same with the smallness of the frontal arch compared to the parietal. The capacity of the skull in men of genius, as is natural, is above the average, by which it approaches what is found in insanity.
There are numerous exceptions in which it descends below the ordinary average. It is certain that in Italy, Volta 1, c. Ambrose 1, c. The same character is found to a still greater degree in Kant 1, c. Le Bon studied twenty-six skulls of French men of genius, among whom were Boileau, Descartes, and Jourdan. Among the Parisians of to-day scarcely 12 per cent. But sub-microcephalic skulls may also be found in men of genius. In the face of all these facts I shall not be taxed with temerity if I conclude that, as genius is often expiated by inferiority in some psychic functions, it is often associated with anomalies in that organ which is the source of its glory.
In the last-named, besides remarkable thickness of the skull, especially at the forehead, Bischoff noted adherence of the dura mater to the bone, thickening of the arachnoid and atrophy of the brain. In the physician Fuchs, Wagner found the fissure of Rolando interrupted by a superficial convolution, an anomaly which Giacomini found only once in cases, and Heschl once in In Gambetta this exaggeration became a real doubling; and the right quadrilateral lobule is divided into two parts by a furrow which starts from the occipital fissure; of these two parts the inferior is subdivided by an incision with numerous branches, arranged in the form of stars, and the occipital lobe is small, especially on the right.
This is especially the case in regard to the third frontal convolution which is not only more variable in men of genius, but also more complex, especially on one side, while in ordinary persons it is very simple both on the left and on the right. Without doubt the individual arrangements which may be presented by the brains of men of remarkable intelligence may also be found in ordinary brains, but only in rare exceptions.
On the other hand, the convolution is much reduced and very simple on the left, much developed in all its parts on the right, in the brain of the pathologist Buhl, a professor whose speech was clear and facile, but who was left-handed, or at all events ambidextrous. Krebs was much less complicated, and notably narrower in the frontal region. Leonardo da Vinci sketched rapidly with his left hand any figures which struck him, and only employed the right hand for those which were the mature result of his contemplation; for this reason his friends were persuaded that he only wrote with the left hand.
So the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity. Croker, in his edition of Boswell , remarks that all the great English poets had no posterity. Hobbes, Camden, and many others, avoided marriage in order to have more time to devote to study. Paul boasted of his absolute continence; Cavendish altogether lacked the sexual instinct, and had a morbid antipathy to women. I cannot reconcile one with the other.
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One must choose. Unlikeness to Parents. That is one of the marks of degeneration. They often differ from their national type. Nevertheless, one finds very notable and frequent exceptions. Dante, when nine years of age, wrote a sonnet to Beatrice; Tasso wrote verses at ten.
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Pascal and Comte were great thinkers at the age of thirteen, Fornier at fifteen, Niebuhr at seven, Jonathan Edwards at twelve, Michelangelo at nineteen, Gassendi, the Little Doctor, at four, Bossuet at twelve, and Voltaire at thirteen. Pico de la Mirandola knew Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Arabic, in his childhood; Goethe wrote a story in seven languages when he was scarcely ten; Wieland knew Latin at seven, meditated an epic poem at thirteen, and at sixteen published his poem, Die Vollkommenste Welt.
Lopez de la Vega composed his first verses at twelve, Calderon at thirteen.
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Kotzebue was trying to write comedies at seven, and at eighteen his first tragedy was acted. Pope wrote his ode to Solitude at twelve and his Pastorals at sixteen. Byron wrote verses at twelve, and at eighteen published his Hours of Idleness.
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Moore translated Anacreon at thirteen. Meyerbeer at five played excellently on the piano. Claude Joseph Vernet drew very well at four, and at twenty was already a celebrated painter. At thirteen Wren invented an astronomical instrument and offered it to his father with a Latin dedication. Metastasio improvised at ten; Ennius Quirinus Visconti excited the admiration of all at sixteen months, and preached when six years old. Mirabeau preached at three and published books at ten. Handel composed a mass at thirteen, at seventeen Corinda and Nero , and at nineteen was director of the opera at Hamburg.
Raphael was famous at fourteen. Restif de la Bretonne had already read much at four; at eleven he had seduced young girls, and at fourteen had composed a poem on his first twelve mistresses. Eichorn, Mozart, and Eybler gave concerts at six. At thirteen Beethoven composed three sonatas.