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The Man of Genius

Cesare Lombroso

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ee too well that to do a good turn to one, is usually to do a bad one to another. The{51} vision of the unknown person I am injuring stops short my zeal.”

Renan, indeed, is a most singular instance of these characteristics in connection with genius, from his earliest years. At mass his childish eye wandered over the roof of the chapel, and he thought of the great men told of in books. It was his dream to write books. “My gentleness,” he writes, “which often arises from indifference, my indulgence, which is very sincere and which depends on a clear perception of the injustice of men to each other, the conscientious habits which are a pleasure to me, the indefinite endurance of ennui which I possess—having, perhaps, been inoculated in my youth—may be explained by my surroundings, and the deep impressions I have received. The paradoxical vow to preserve the clerical virtues without the faith which serves as basis for them, and in . . . Read More

Community Reviews

when melanie martinez wrote «all the best people are crazy», she was right

Starts off well. Interesting observations. Then it gets increasingly irrational. With all the data available now and research in the modern world, the old knowledge especially of classical times and the pre-modern world has become redundant if it's not fiction. Though the book does give you an idea

Незнав Чезаро Ламброзо, що у 21 столітті зачати дітей можна і без чоловіка.

Gli voglio troppo bene a 'sto coglione.

Today I suppose that the genius people are crazy very often!

Так и не понял, зачем вообще я ее дочитал. Не оспариваю ни в коем случае высокий уровень экспертности Чезаре Ломброзо в данной теме, но затрудняюсь сказать, кому книга может быть интересна... Самое главное, мне ее рекомендовал друг, вкусу которого я точно доверяю. Или уже доверял... Пожалуй, поговор