The Man of Genius

Le Epilessie, p. 19, Turin, 1880.

464

Shenstone, Darwin, Swift, and Walter Scott were subject to giddiness (Smiles).

465

See L’Uomo Delinquente, part iii. p. 623.

466

“There is a fatality,” says Goncourt, “in the first chance which suggests your idea. Then there is an unknown force, a superior will, a sort of necessity of writing which command your work and guide your pen; so much so, that sometimes the book which leaves your hands does not seem to have come out of yourself; it astonishes you, like something which was in you, and of which you were unconscious. That is the impression which Sœur Philomène gives me” (Journal des Goncourt, Paris, 1888). Even Buffon, who had said that invention depends on patience, adds, “One must look at one’s subject for a long time; then it gradually unfolds and develops itself; you feel a slight electric shock strike your head and at the same time seize you at the heart; that is the moment of genius.”

467

Evidently the author himself.

468

Dostoïeffsky, Besi, Paris.

469

Archivio di Psichiatria, ix. 1., p. 89.

470

Taine, Revue des Deux Mondes– Dec. 1886, and Jan. 1887.

471

Renan, in Les Apôtres.

472

Renan.

473

Tonnini, Epilessie, 1886; Archivio di Psichiatria, 1886.

474

Les Hystériques, Paris, 1883.

475

Vinson, Les religions actuelles, 1884; Luke ii. 49; Matt. xii. 48; Mark iii. 33.

476

Anfosso, La Légende religieuse au moyen-âge, 1887.

477

On altruism in moral insanity and epilepsy, see L’Uomo Delinquente, pp. 556, 557. We have seen St. Francis love even the stars, the water, the fire, &c., and – abandon his family!

478

Lombroso, Studii sull’ipnotismo, 3rd ed.; Azam, Hypnotisme, Double Conscience; Beaunis, Le somnambulisme provoqué, La suggestion mentale; Drs. H. Bourru and P. Burot, Dugay, Richet, Janet, Revue Philosophique, 1884-89; Krafft-Ebing, Ueber den Hypnotismus, 1889; Jendrassik, Ueber die Suggestion, 1887; Binet and Feré, La Polarisation, 1885; Ibid., Le magnétisme animal; Beard, Nature and Phenomena of Trance, New York, 1880; Lombroso and Ottolenghi, Nuovi Studii sull’ipnotismo, 1890, and Sulla Transmissione del Pensiero, 1891.

479

Revue Littéraire, 1887.

480

Michelangelo Buonarroti; Epistolario, publicato da G. Milanese. 1888.

481

Michelangelo Buonarroti, di F. Parlagreco, 1888.

482

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1888.

483

Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol. i. p. 149.

484

Letters, vol. i.

485

Quoted by Parant. Regnard, Sorcellerie, 1887.

486

Regnard, Sorcellerie, 1887.

487

Ibid.