The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-31
lChicago Trihunc.l

ticnilS insanity are twin BROTH
or~, The master mind has mental and
physical degeneration in its blood.
some of tn" greatest geniuses of the
world have lived in mad houses Some
nj the matld"st men in history have
been world leaders.
Eud1ha. Byron. Leopard. Schopcn-
bauer lowered on the brink of insan-
jty. To u" perfectly sane is to be per
f"rtly commonplace. To be creative,
aS genius is. means To he abnormal.
y hairs breadth separates the two.
ON" brother goes to the asylum: one
brother goes to tn" university chair.
They ar" the children Of n mother
neither is commonplace. The first
is degenerate. Incapable of finding his
own MAY: the second is a master who
leads thousands upon the road of life.
1t is n we'll known fact that too
n.uch power is dangerous for the COM
mnnity and the individual. There are
many who believe that the genius is
even more harmful for he is abnor-
ma and is closely related to the mad
man. There is no ADLER authority on
III" subject of insanity than T. S.
Clouston. n was lecturer at one time
on mental diseases in the University.
of E?dinburg and is now president Of
III" royal college of physicians in the
same city. In his book. THE Tn
~Sollndncss of the Mind" he makes n
careful comparison of The sane and
insane mind. For convenience he di-
VidcS all minds into cleven classes.
He puts the smaller genius in the
third and the greater genius in the
fourth. He says that the men and
women of small genius arc full Of
i.orieinalitr and ideas as \ rule. but
they are impracticablc INC contemptu-
Gus of people who have less talent
than themselves.
They have unfortunate dispositions,
for they are generally unhappy. i'm
patient, and of cynical disposition.
They are cocksure about everything
and usually neurotic. They feel more
quickly than they reason and act on
instinct and impulse. When they are
women they are peculiarly sensitive
and enthusiastic. live on their nerves
and suffer frequently from nervous
lrostration. They show physical quail
ties that mark them as abnormal.
They have not perfectly balanced
heads. they have high palates and
show signs Of nervousness and degen-
Grafton.
The fourth class constitute the great
men, who are considered the gods of
their generations. Their advent is arc
and they arc hard to distinguish at
times from cranks. imbeciles. etc,
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the energy OF several generations to
make them. They arc sometimes sane,
as Were Darwin and kespeare, but
usually they have a dash of brain in
stability. y. close study OF the insane
shows many who are abnormal in
certain ways and still have the quail
ties of these men Of greater genius.
Clouston cites a pathological case he
saw at I:arlswood asylum under the
care of DR.. T%redsold. The latter had
Il patient who was insane and still was
81 genius in craftsmanship and me-
%chanical invention. This man had
made some elaborate and remarkable
drawings. He constructed a model
ship which took him more than three
every detail. including brass anchors.
screws. pulley blocks and copper pad
dies. IT contains $685. copper rivcts
and has thirteen life boats hoisted on
davits. 1t is IL perfect model in every
detail.
DIR. Henry Maudsley spent many
years working among the abnormal in
insanity and genius are twin brothers
insanity and genius are twi brothers
which sometimes resemble each other
so closely they are hard to tell apart.
He says: at is an old story that
genius and madmcn are closely allied.
Assuredly they often do occur side by
size IN succession IN the same ram.
lilies. The son or brother Of a. person
who committed suicide or was other
wise disordcred mentally may he a
genius. 1t is no exaggerati0n to say
that there is hardly ever A man OF
genius who has not insanity or some
nervous ailment in his family. This
is only natural, for in order to go mad
or to be a genius the individual must
be original-that. is, he must have a
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things as they are and an urgent inn
pulse to get off the beaten track Of!
thought n feeling in which ninety
nine out of every hundred people 20
o%ontentedly all their lives"
According to DR.. Maudsley's idea the
normal people are those who think,
feel n act pretty much the same
day after day. When a man is i'm
PEELED to think and act differently
from his associates he is either al
genius or a mailman. In either case
he represents some organic varjationl
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