Weaknesses Of Famous Men

Dr. Jamas Veir observes that mechanical -eniuses, or those who deal mainly with raaterial facts, do not, as a rule, show nny siíjns o mental degeneration. In proof of ihis, says the London Public Opinión, one need only instance Darwin, Galileo, Kdison, Maxim, Watt,, Rumsey, Howe, etc. 14 is only the genius of aestheticism, the genius of th; ecaotions, that is generally aoconipanied by unniistakable signs of deffjneration. Swinburne's poems show the mental bias of their author, wiio is dísscribed as peculiar and ecconirio. Mar.y of the men who hava aided in making the worid's history, were viotims of epilepsy, as was Julius Cassar, military leader, statesmaa and author. Mnv men of geni:;3 have Bufferedírorn cholerío and spawrciodic movements, notabiy Lsnau, Montesquieu, Buffon, Dr. Johnsoa, Thomas Campbail, Napoleon and Sócrates. Suicide, essen l'aily a symplom of mental disorder, has carried off tnany a man of genius, inoluding such immortals as ChftMwrton, Blount, Haydon, Clive and David. Alcoholism and morphinism at-a aow regarded as evidencos of deganeration, and have had as victims Colefidgo, Sheridan, Steele, Addison, Hafiman, Charles Larnb, Burns and raany others. In mon of genius the moral sense is sometimea obtunded or absent. Sallust, Séneca and Bacon were sur í d felons; Rousseau, Byron, Fo.. . and Caresa were grossly immoral, n ' -sano va, the giftod math" ; ■ ' iia, a comBion swiiidier.