This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...genius will be associated with delicacy of constitution. Heredity alone never produces moral genius, since there must also be education; and the example set by parents or teachers is the most important element in education. The moral genius is specially favoured by heredity, and yet he cannot become a genius except by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...genius will be associated with delicacy of constitution. Heredity alone never produces moral genius, since there must also be education; and the example set by parents or teachers is the most important element in education. The moral genius is specially favoured by heredity, and yet he cannot become a genius except by receiving illumination, and by utilising it. Tennyson had to spend many years in gaining experience, and in exercising his gifts, before his message to the world had special value. In modern times it has become extremely difficult for a strong and clever man to develop any latent genius, and the restoration of Eden has been lamentably retarded by the wholesale spiritual destruction of the children who have potential genius. They are caged up by artificial surroundings, or directed to the way of death. Owing to the influence of Christian homes and Christian women there are few children in a country like England who have not some genius; and yet the vast majority live and die almost as animals. Success is supposed to mean the accumulation of wealth, or the possession of power, or the attainment of fame; and the cleverest children are trained to fight, and rob, and cheat, and steal, or to devote their attention to whatever study is most likely to lead to lucrative employment. The possession of wisdom for its own sake seems folly to those who are fiercely struggling for gold, and the enjoyment to be found in calm meditation seems the horror of death to those who know nothing to live for but the gratification of the senses. The man who would develop his genius must turn away from the dazzling scenes of intoxicating delight provided by Mammon, and from the enchanting music which is the funeral march of the soul; and, to find wisdom, he must pray to ...
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