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

study of British genius. he points to
the fact that aInn-- idiots young.
est born n the oldest largely pre-
dominate over the other children. He
ais, holds that the youngest and old
est are "'so the one that most often
are men Of genius. Both are weak
at birth. many of them SO delicate that
their lives were despaired of through.
out childhood. Among this number
may be mentioned Keats, Newton.
Stewart, Charles Wesley. Locke and
Sterne. Even where they lived to be
old they were usually weak and lacked
the vigor common to most men and
women.
Not a few of the great men died
insane. Among this number were
William Collins. cowper, Romney,
Smart and ]. Barry. Some of these
did their best work when under the
spells" Christopher Smart's MASTER
piece was inspired by insanity. and
Cowper vas at his best when insane.
Insane students of nature were
Swammerdam. who thought he had
insulted God. and Albrecht Won Hal
Ter. This was also true of the mathe-
maticians. Bolyai. Cardau and John
George zimmerman. and the physiolo-
gist, Johannes Miller.
Among the insane philosophers
We're Aususte Comte and Engel. Many
OF the great composers were attacked
by insanity; especially noticeable vas
it in the case of S%chumann. Gounod
and Donizetti. Even the painters
have not been free from the taint. as
such men as Van Goes. Van Leyden
and Carlo Dolce had attacks for weeks
at a time. Some of their brains show.
cd afliction when examined. Thus
I;ousseau's brain suffered from VEN
tricular dropsy. Pascal had lesion of
the cerebral hemisphere.
Even when their brains showed no
bodies. 1t is we'll known that Mac
aulay could not handle a razor or a
neck cloth. His friends laughed that
u man who handled a pen so readily
could not use Il razor. Priestley,
though an expert in making expert
ments. could not for his life learn to
handle a tool. Shelley was known to
forever stumpling upstairs.
Goodwin Swift suffered from con-
genital insanity all his life. and even
when a boy was full of crazy I'M
pulses. AS he grew up these Affections
grew worse. He suffered from giddi-
ness. deafness. impaired sight, mus
cular paralysis and all symptoms Of
brain disease.
Dr.. johnson inherited q melancholy
which made him mad all his life, or
at least not sober minded. When
young he was seized With paralysis,
and even while studying at oxford he
was on the verge Of insanity. He had
Authorizations such as hearing his
mother call when he was away from
her.
Byron was forever telling his friends
some curse hangs over me and
mine" His whole life was a series
of moods bordering between eccen-
tricity and insanity. Turner. the
painter, had . mother who suffered
with insanity. and his father was a
dwarfish looking men He inherited
many of their peculiarities, and wa
considered stupid about everything
except his sense of color.
kcan and Booth. ever when young.
showed decided marks of insanity.
Booth often left his manager without
cause or explanation. One day, while
he was playing a serious part, he took
the priest in his arms and waltzed
around the stage.
Arthur Macdonald. Il specialist, saws
that the physical characteristics of the
insane are almost as frequent as with
the m"n of genius. hey have a svm-
metry of the face and head. Irregular
ltE of teeth. face and head very large
or Very small; also. a~bnormally large
or small ears or mouth, bent nose.
hands of unequal size and defective
eyebrows. Genius not only is abnor-
NAL. but it often passes into patholo-
gical form-many forms of insanity