Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-09-05
THE MAN OF GENIUS.

1t is too bad that all the thinking
| people in Durango didn't hear DIR.
Bells lecture on the subject given
above.
SO clear cut were the distinctions
drawn that no one could fail to see
| the points he made.
But best of all was the fact that
| his words acted as a crystallizing
agent and so solidified the knowledge
we had that it will now be of more
use to us.
The man of genius has touched all
extremes and all means.
The man of genius is the child OF
his age. He more than any other is
saturated with the ideas that govern
| the people of his time.
His personality is the common di
visor of mankind.
There are certain qualities that are
always possessed by the one who has
genius.
An enthusiasm that makes the work
necessary to carry out his ideas any
thing but irksome. Agassiz looked
| through 10000 shells of one species
| to find that no two were alike. So
possessed was he with the desire to
prove what he had already suspected
that nature never repeats herself.
The man of genius is the outcome OF
| the particular age in which he lives
| In our own country We find first the
wave of religious freedom that DOM
mated the country and it gave us such
| men as Abbott, Johnathan, Edwards
Emerson and many others.
Then came the political era with
our long list of brilliant statesmen
beginning with Washington and cul
minating in Lincoln. The Industrial
era has given us such men as Could
Rockefeller, Carnegie, men of affairs
but no less men of genius.
| In whatever field he appears he
must be comprehensive minded. He
must see all and comprehend each
part. Cosmic minded, holding every
thing in its proper place.
| The man of genius must possess a
great Imagination.
| He must be able to picture to him
self that which he wishes to attain
and picture it in all of its details.
He must be indefatigable in labor,
Vundt performed n certain experiment
over 24,70O times Darwin was 32
years producing his Origin of Spe
cies," but who OF us would not be glad
to give thirty-two years to accomplish
such an end
| Tennyson was seventeen years writ
ing in Memorium."
| 1t is said that when Edison is work
| hundred hours without rest or food,
| just steady work.
Nor Is even good health always
necessary. Spencer accomplished his
work though suffering in body most
of the time.
| When we study these men We feel
with DR.. Bell that Nothing is great
III the world but man and nothing
| great in man but mind"
This wonderful mind includes feel
ing. thought and action. The organs
by which they function being the
sensory nerves the motor nerves and
the mind AS result we are all more
| or less, sensitive. active and reilec.
tive.
To think. to feel. to do, that is life.
II we take the initial letters for
sensitive, n for active and r for re
| Elective, and let these letters stand
Tor the corresponding quality in a
man we have a convenient way of OK.
pressing what We mean by the differ
ent types of men.
my friends and patients for the past
We may find that a man have ali
three partly but equally developed
s-a-r or has one part highly de
yeloped and the other two small. S-a-r
or s-A-r or s-a-R. These give us the
ordinary people.
But observe: II we find the equa-
ton reads S-A-r we find this expresses