Note 75 — GENIUS AND INSANITY.
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The Æsthetician Vischer says: “The man endowed with fancy is in the midst of the world truly solitary, for the one which he at present peacefully warms in his bosom is his world; and the empirical world has surrendered all its significance to this microcosm. Thus he is indifferent to the things about him, and seems to be out of himself. The reason is, that he is quite within himself, but in such a way that he does not distinguish subject and object within himself. What has come upon him is that the object and his subjective life ferment together; and he now listens unconsciously to this inward singing, sounding, and weaving.” Vol. ii, p. 345.