CHAPTER I.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INSANE MEN OF GENIUS.....314-329

Characterlessness--Vanity--Precocity--Alcoholism--Vagabondage-- Versatility--Originality--Style--Religious doubts--Sexual abnormalities--Egoism--Eccentricity--Inspiration.

ANALOGY OF SANE TO INSANE GENIUS.....330-335

Want of character--Pride--Precocity--Alcoholism--Degenerative signs--Obsession--Men of genius in revolutions.

THE EPILEPTOID NATURE OF GENIUS.....336-352

Etiology--Symptoms--Confessions of men of genius--The life of a great epileptic--Napoleon--Saint Paul--The saints--Philanthropic hysteria.

SANE MEN OF GENIUS.....353-358

Their unperceived defects--Richelieu--Sesostris--Foscolo--Michelangelo--Darwin.

CONCLUSIONS.....359-361

APPENDIX.....363-366

INDEX.....367-370

THE MAN OF GENIUS.

PART I.

_THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GENIUS._