Note 20 — THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENIUS.

“To gain an exact definition of the word genius, and in general of the aggregate of different names given to mind, we must rise to wider ideas, and for this purpose we must lend an attentive ear to the judgments of the public.... The public ranks as men of genius alike the Descartes, the Newtons, the Lockes, the Montesquieus, the Corneilles, the Molières, etc. The name genius given to men so different supposes that there is some common quality in which they agree.”