Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1913 — GENESIS OF GENIUS. [ARTICLE]

GENESIS OF GENIUS.

la a paper ugfthe “Genesis of Genius’* read before the recent International Congress on Psychiatry at Amsterdam. De. G. Rabinovttah cd Nev York Called attention •0 the romarkabte fact that osuapaswttvety few gentaeee have beta the firstborn ad their parents. In a study sd seventy-four biographies of great men and women—poeta, writers, prttttotaMi palntoHi and mits*efoni "eke found bat ten firstborn. Among fuetydwo writers and posts but rtx were the eldest children; sovsntssn painters but one was the firstborn of his mother (he was a natural child; among fifteen asnrictaas thane woso only two firstNot only woso these men of genius not the firstborn, in % very largo number of oboes they were the youngest of the family. Tkub Ooleridge was the test of thirteen children. Jamas Fenlmore Oeoper was the eleventh of twelve children, Washington Irving was the last of eleven. Balzac the last of three, George Elliot the last of four, Napoison was the eighth, and probably the last; Daniel Webstar the last of seven. Benjamin Franklin was the last of seventeen and thslast born of the last born for several generations, Rembrandt was the' last of six children, Rubens the last of seven. Sir Edwin Landseer the fifth of seven children; Josuha Reynolds was the seventh child of bls parents, Cart Marta Weber the ninth, Richard Wagner the last of seven, MoBart the last of seven, Schumann the last of five, Schubert the thirteenth of fourteen. The parents, therefore, of great men were for the most part of a ripe age at the time of the conception of the latter; that is to say, the cellular potentiality of the parents was than at its maximum from the mental as well as tho physical point at view.