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xviii the mind—Sensibility—Certainty of judgment—Developed consciousness as a male character

CHAPTER IV

Genius and talent—Genius and giftedness—Methods—Comprehension of many men—What is meant by comprehending men—Great complexity of genius—Periods in psychic life—No disparagement of famous men—Understanding and noticing—Universal consciousness of genius—Greatest distance from the henid stage—A higher grade of maleness—Genius always universal—The female devoid of genius or of hero-worship—Giftedness and sex

CHAPTER V

Organisation and the power of reproducing thoughts—Memory of experiences a sign of genius—Remarks and conclusions—Remembrance and apperception—Capacity for comparison and acquisition—Reasons for the masculinity of music, drawing and painting—Degrees of genius—Relation of genius to ordinary men—Autobiography—Fixed ideas—Remembrance of personal creations—Continuous and discontinuance memory—Continuity and piety—Past and present—Past and future—Desire for immortality—Existing psychological explanations—True origin—Inner development of man until death—Ontogenetic psychology or theoretical biography—Woman lacking in the desire for immortality—Further extension of relation of memory to genius—Memory and time—Postulate of timelessness—Value as a timeless quality—First law of the theory of value—Proofs—Individuation and duration constituents of value—Desire for immortality a special case—Desire for immortality in genius connected with timelessness, by his universal memory and the duration of his creations—Genius and history—Genius and nations—Genius and language—Men of action and men of science, not to be called men of genius—Philosophers, founders of religion and artists have genius