Albertus Magnus,7Alcoholism in men of genius,54,316,325Alexander the Great,6,54,146Alfieri,20,22,23,27,28,103Amiel,52-53Ampère,29,34,67,315Anæsthesia of men of genius,33Anabaptists,256Arabesques by insane artists,200Argentine men of genius,313Aristotle,8,13Art in the insane,179et seq.Artists, distribution of great European,117et seq.Atavism in literature of the insane,172Bach,139Bacon,61Balzac,6,47,342Barometrical condition and genius,101Baudelaire,28,69-72,316,325Beethoven,34,61,146Berlioz,27Bernouilli,141Blake, W.,6,56Bolyai,73Bruno, G.,25,35,47,106,316Buffon,34,339Burns,41Byron,7,9,29,56,61,62,103,146Cabanis,17Cæsar, Julius,39,54Campanella,285-291Campbell, T.,6,38,146Cardan,21,35,74-77,145,314,323Carducci,38Carlo Dolce,67Carlyle,7,61Casanova,59Cavendish,14Cavour,43,354Cerebral characteristics of men of genius,8-13,327Chamfort,14Charity, hysterical,349Charles V.,13,146Chateaubriand,38,44Chopin,43,47,48Choreic symptoms in men of genius,38Civilization on genius, influence of,153et seq.Clare, J.,165Clarke, Marcus,8Climatic influences on genius,117et seq.Codazzi,73Coleridge,22,44,55Coleridge, Hartley,55Columbus,56Comte,15,60,73Concato,72Conception of men of genius,149Cowley,23Cowper,24Cranial characteristics of men of genius,8-13,327Criminality of genius,57et seq.Cuvier,11Dante,8,11,15,35,46,106Darwin,13,106,356-357Décadent poets,230et seq.Descartes,22Dickens,23Diderot,34Discoveries, dates of,105et seq.Disease on genius, influence of,151Domenichino,17Donizetti,9,11,62Dostoïeffsky,8,321,339-341Double personality of men of genius,24Dreams, genius working during,21,326Dumaspère,7,62Dupuytren,41Education on genius, influence of,159-160Egoism of men of genius,318-319Enfantin, Prosper,295-296Epilepsy and genius,38Epileptoid nature of genius,336et seq.Erasmus,6,8,13Flaxman,7Flaubert,7,14,17,28,40,50,60,331,341Florentine genius,123,154-155Foderà,91Folie du douteof men of genius,48et seq.Fontenelle,62Forgetfulness of men of genius,33Foscolo,9,11,18,20,29,31,104,106Francis of Assisi,258-260Frederick II.,62French genius,127Galvani,109-110,114Gambetta,11,12Gauss,12Genius, Aristotle on,1;Plato on,2;Diderot on,3;Richter on,19Genius, a neurosis,5;distinct from talent,19,35;in the insane,161et seq.;in mattoids,226et seq.;its epileptoid nature,336et seq.;in the sane,353et seq.Genius, characteristics of men of,6;height,6;frequency of rickets,7;pallor,7;emaciation,7;cranial and cerebral characteristics,8-13,327;stammering,13;lefthandedness,13;sterility,13;unlikeness to parents,14;physiognomy,14;precocity,15,315;delayed development,16;misoneism,17;vagabondage,18,316;unconsciousness and instinctiveness,19;somnambulism,21;inspiration,22;double personality,24;stupidity,25;hyperæsthesia,26;anæsthesia,33;forgetfulness,33;originality,35,317-318;fondness for special words,37;frequency of chorea and epilepsy,38;melancholy,40;delusions of grandeur,45;folie du doute,48et seq.;alcoholism,54,316;hallucinations,56;moral insanity,57;longevity,64;insanity,66et seq.;meteorological influences on,100et seq.;climatic influences on,117et seq.;influence of race,126,133;influence of sex,137;influence of heredity,139et seq.;relation to criminality,144et seq.;age of parents,149;conception,149;influence of disease on,151;influence of civilization on,153et seq.;influence of education,159-160;characteristics of insane,314et seq.;analogy of sane and insane,330et seq.;in revolutions,334-335Giordani,104Giusti,40,104Goethe,7,15,21,40Gogol,98-99Goldsmith,6Goncourts, the,28,331,339,342Grandeur among men of genius, delusions of,45Graphomaniacs,212et seq.Gray,43Guiteau,313Haller,67,319, 320Hallucinations of men of genius,56-57Hamilton, Sir W. R.,109Hamlet,53Haydn,19Head injuries and genius,8,151Heat on genius, influence of,103et seq.Height of men of genius,6Heine,6,103,152Hoffmann, E. T. A.,90-91Hogarth,6Howard, John,8,351Hugo, V.,46Hyperæsthesia of men of genius,26Insane, art and the,179et seq.Insane and the weather,100Insane among savages, the,245Insanity and genius,66et seq.,13,143,145,148,161et seq.,314et seq.,332Insanity, epidemics of religious,251et seq.Inspiration, genius in,22Instinctiveness of genius,19Jesus,45,63Jewish genius,133-137Johnson, Dr.,7,49,57Kant,8,10Kerner,146Keshub Chunder Sen,244Klaproth,17Kleist,23Knutzen,244Krüdener, Julie de,257Lagrange,110Lamartine,20Lamb, C.,6,13,67Lamennais,15Laplace,18Lasker,11Lawsuit mania,224-226Lazzaretti,296-308Lee, N.,67Leibnitz,22Lefthandedness of men of genius,13Lenau,38,85-87,315,316,321,325Lesage,104Leopardi,7,41,53,104Linnæus,32Literary mattoids,209et seq.Longevity of men of genius,64Lovat’s autocrucifixion,183Loyola,257Luther,260-261Mahomet,31,39,325Maine de Biran,50,101-103,151Mainländer,72Malebranche,56Malibran,27Mallarmé,231Malpighi,108,114Manzoni,49Matteucci,111Mattoids,212et seq.;of genius,226et seq.;in art,239;in politics and religion,242et seq.Megalomania,45-48Melancholy in men of genius,40-45Mendelssohn, F.,7Mendelssohn, M.,7,13Meteorological influences on genius,100et seq.Meyerbeer,15Michelangelo,13,15,354-356Michelet,103,229Mill, J. S.,44Milton,8,13,104Misoneism of men of genius,17Molière,39,42Monge,33Moral insanity in men of genius,57,201,333Mountainous regions and genius,128et seq.Mozart,20,42Musicians, distribution of great Italian,120et seq.Musset, A. de,61Napoleon,18,38,49,61,103,342-346Nerval, Gérard de,44,68-69,164Newton,17,21,80-81Obscenity in art of the insane,200-201Originality of men of genius,35,317-318;in the insane,184-186Orographic influences on men of genius,122Pallor of men of genius,7Paganini,39Paranoia,173Parents of men of genius,144et seq.Passanante,308-313Pascal,39,315,316,320Patriotism and genius,64Peter the Great,39Philanthropists and moral insanity,351Physiognomy of men of genius,8,14Poe,318,320Poetry and the insane,363-366Political mattoids,242et seq.Pope,7Poushkin,30,103,105Praga,326Precocity of genius,15,315,330Race on genius, influence of,117et seq.,133Religious doubts of men of genius,318Religious mattoids,242et seq.Renan,50-52,147Restif de la Bretonne,16Revolutions and men of genius,334-335Richelieu,39Rickets in men of genius,7Rienzi, Cola da,263-285Rossini,22,35,42Rouelle,33,48Rousseau, J. J.,11,22,81-85,103,314,324Saint Paul,347-348Sand, George,42San Juan de Dios,291-294Sanity and genius,353et seq.Savages and the insane,245Savonarola,261-263Schiller,7,10,15,22,23,41,105Schopenhauer,18,30,91-98,148,315Schumann,9,11,68Scotch genius,154Scott, Walter,7,8,17Sesostris,354Sex in genius, influence of,136Sexual abnormalities of men of genius,316Shelley,22,56Socrates,8,21,33,38Somnambulism of men of genius,21Spallanzani,104,110Spanish genius,127Stammering in men of genius,13Sterility of men of genius,13Sterne,7,8Stupidities of men of genius,25Suicide and genius,41Swedenborg,256Swift,79-80,315Sylvester,104Symbolism in insane art,187et seq.Széchényi,87-90Talent and genius,9Tasso,55,77-79,314,316,321Thackeray,10Thermometrical influences on genius,103Tolstoi,50Torricelli,109Tourgueneff,7,10Unconsciousness of genius,19Vagabondage of men of genius,18,316Vanity of men of genius,315,330Verlaine,232-237Villon,59Volta,9,17,109Voltaire,7,8,42Weather on genius, influence of,100et seq.Whitman, Walt,7,318Words, fondness of men of genius for special,37Wülfert,11Xavier, St. Francis,7Zimmermann,43
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