Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — Mark of Creative Genius. [ARTICLE]

Mark of Creative Genius.

A mark of creative genius, misoneism (or the rejection of the discovery or work of others), Is often the most terrible obstacle to progress. Napoleon would have nothing to do with steam, and Richelieu threw Into a lunatic asylum the man who d:s overed it; Voltaire denied the value of fossils to science; Darwin Jeered at hypnotism; and Virchow absolutely denied Darwinism a: d criminal anthropology. A great many of the Popes have been forced into exile, generally by emeutes among the turbulent Roman populace. A few were restored, but most of them died in exile.