Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — Insane Geniuses. [ARTICLE]

Insane Geniuses.

There Is some relation between *cM*m traordinary activity of mind and fcnHfl sanity. Geniuses are apt to exhibral symptoms of mental alienation, and, | singular to relate, their children are'll usually inferior to those of averagjß men. M For instance, Cromwell was a hypeJl chondriac, and had visions; Dean Swift | inherited insanity, and wan himselfjj not a little mad; Shelley was called hijM his friends “Mad Shelley;” Chaxfct|3 Lamb went crazy; Johnson was anoth»|| er hypochondriac; Coleridge was all morbid maniac; Milton was of a mor-'ll bid turn of mind, nearly approaching! insanity—modern ideas as to hades awM! largely formed on the description® evolved by his diseased imaglnation|il and Byron said he was visited by? 9 ghosts. Ja |