Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-16
MANY UNDISCOVERED eENUisEs.
Luck as Well as Talent Said to Play
Important Part in Success OF Fa-
nous People.

| Are YOU a genius Are You an UNI
discovered an undeveioped Shakes
lIeare? Are you n Darwin frttering
| : wavs Your existence in grocery
store Are You a Lincoln. living in tbs
wrong age, a Spinosa lacking i'll edlca=
| : ion and opportunities? Are You q
mute, inglorous Milton" who has moi
| round 4 Gray?
Take heart! You are only one of a
rcat army of men of genius who never
| : Il a chance.
And if anybody tells you sneerinsiy
| that real talent always makes It's
| yay.s md that the fact that you have
. Ut made vour way and YOU stick IL
Tho grocery or sweatshop is proof pos
| Tive that you have 40 ability that
| this is lust where you belong, Go not
Ifaka him seriously. He is dead IRONS.
It least this is what Sisurd ibseht
famous sen of /. famous father. the
ron of the great Norwegian poet ana
frama list. Henrik Ihsen, says
Siouard Ibsen in a hook entitled
| Human Ouintessence," published re-
fontIy. 9ays a warm tribute to the mil
Ions of undiscovered seniHses Who
ever got he opportunity to demon
rate their ability To the world. fne
Human Quintessence' immortalizes
fAe undiscovered genius of today JUST
- Grays "Elegy in Country Charcil-
ard .nnmortalized the mute, lnsio-
l.ous Millions" of his time.
If is lbsen's theory that much OF the
| f lme which great men receive is due
I, luck fully as much as to their own
~eat talent.
NO matter now important a human
! ainr is" saws Ibsen. "he cannot force
| ! is wav if he lives at the WroEG time
nd in the wrong place. We know
er only one Napoleon, he says But
,herr were many more Napoleons who
yamain unknown to us because the
| rance for success did not appear, and
| .,ey had 20 go under in silence and
| 4 arkness." 1t was "a pure cnaEce ne
sa4.s. that turned Luther from juris-
| ! rudence to theology and paved the
| : av for him to become d great rel.sl-
| { IS refornler. 1t IVES chance that put
| ismarck in n position which enabled
| | i'm to stamp German history with his
l. zrsonalitS."
"A human beings advancement,
lays Ibsen. lis conditioned by elreum-
l. ances over which he has no control
| He cuiogizes the great army of gen
ises who have never seen the light OF
/ ternal fame because they were un-
| ] lcky, because they lived in wrong
&c, or have not had the chance to give
| free play to their ability for other rea-
!. 5ns. He says:
! Hero worship is. for a large part
Ian accommodating Interpretation of
| nance, and the history of culture. as
| ell as Of politics. properly viewed Is
ne saga of the fortunate. 1t is the ac-
count of the geniuses and heroes "ho
I'D not go to the bottom. OF those Whe
ere not held down helpless III mario"
.rcumstances, whom no illness OF ac-
| { dent swept away to early graves
|, HON no youthful folly ruined Tor NE
In gives us Information about the IN
lfnlIicenccs and the characters Whose
|; etiyities found opportunities III iahe
|: nd in a period which had need q theii
II overs. of those who got their ehafce
Ii, those years when their talents We're
l. i'll in bloom, of those whom circum'
| ances placed in a career which aiieW-
|, | them to be themselves to the fui
| This nul9gy OF the mass Of 8enuiSes
| ho never got their chance and lnul'
d, set .letraetion from the reputation o.
l,5e great men whom the world was
y ont to defy has stirred the people II
etcry civilized country. 1t has come
lla>e balsam to the million OF heh o
anlity, of genius, VINO have been ssas
rated Or submerged by adverse coiius
| ous. by the want of chance.
The symptoms by which genius, un
l plr
r,iZed arc many. Perhaps 'hs n.''
common symptom is the want "a s"o'
lscnsc or common sense. 10 VAIN -"
the great mass calls common sehse
is often a most indisputabie syihptoii
of genius. A man may be duppe'
STUPID. He may be poor COMPANY -"
Itt,ie often is due To the tact saae ~
is a genius. His nina is pfeoeeupis'
, With a eertain idea which, because
l,is lack of education and opportunities
no is unable to bring out IL the nsite
day ,u,;o =,
Another common characteristic
.anins is torgctfulness. Your VIE ma,
h. telling YOU to make purchase ~
har yo, promise to do so. But yo
forgot il. 1t goes out of your mn
entirely. A quarrel may result Sh
i NOV think that you slight her But yo
, lare not sighting her. AS seiius
\ though an undeveloped one thoush uii
: | recognized, though you yourseil i'ia
| / not know you are one. you are ailiio'e
, hy the forgetting habit.
: Men illustrious in poetry ana ar
e have frequently been melan2hollc.
: ..orhe tendency to melancholy Is com
mon to the majority of thinkers, say
z I,ombroso. The man of genius leei
3 sorrow more than any other man. IN
q meet Goethe who had the physique Q
!. a giant and who never knew poVert
4 MS did many other poets. was never
/ theless unhappy. He is credited Wit
: saving that in all his life he did no
G pass more than four pleasant weeks