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LITTLE GLIMPSES OF THE PASSING SHOW
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GREAT MEN AND GENIUS
(By Sigurd Ibsen, Son of the Famous Norwegian Playwright, Henrik
Ibsen.)
I have read somewhere: "There Is
in the genius and in the hero a mys
terious element which evades every
attempt to explain it," and somewhere
else I read: "In the great personality
there remains a mysterious part
which defies all psychological form
ulas.’.
No observation could be more true
than these two, for what Is here said
of the great personalities is equally
true about everybody else. Also the
average man is a mystery, clothed in
a more common figure which you
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THURSDAY,
merely imagine you can understand
fully. So far, nobody has been able
to define what the individual is, what
makes its life a unit, what spark gives
it soul, what force moves It. The clerk
on his stool and the woman who sells
cabbages on the market are unsolved
riddles as well as Caesar. Mahomet
and Beethoven. The scientific psychol
ogist is fully aware that, strictly
speaking, no human being is to be
"defined'' if this expression means to
lay open the Inmost recesses of his
soul. To these we have no access,
we have to be satisfied with the sur-
face and try to guess what Iles below
it, assisted by our experience and the
indications It glvea What, In this
sense, is called definition, is never
more than a classification of faculties.
Difference of Degree.
The general faculties of the ordi
nary human beings and the great men
are practically the same. The quali
ties which raise these men above the
common herd have their roots In
qualities possessed by everybody, but
they are far more fully developed
and manifest themselves by brighter
Intelligence or greater force or finer
and more' complicated sentiments. A
great man Is a man who rises beyond
the masses, but hb Is separated from
them by no great gulf. The person
who easily learns to execute the
"Ninth Symphony” is more or less
closely related to the genius who cre
ated this great musical poem, for
while you learn a work of art you
Imitate its creator to a certain ex
tent.
The famous monologue. “To be or
not to be,” In which the audience
feels In duty bound to see a wonder
of deep philosophy, in reality* only
expresses very ordinary thoughts
which might as well come up In any
ordinary person as In "Hamlet.”
Grlelparzer, himself a great man. once
wrote: "Surely you are never able to
understand the great ones unless you
feel with the obscure. From the
quarrels of two drunk pushcart men
runs an invisible but unbroken thread
to the quarrels of the sons of the
gods, and in every young girl who
half unwillingly follows the persistent
admirer away from the crowd of
dancers lies in embryo form a Juliette,
a Dido of Medea." We modern people
no longer clothe our thoughts in such
mythological expressions, but the
truth of the words is equally appar
ent today.
Gradation Not Category.
It is very often seen that, even in
the most elevated minds, primitive in
stincts often come to the surface, and
it is a fact that must not be overlook
ed that even the least educated bear
within themselves the germs of the
highest manifestations of the human
mind. This Is very often forgotten.
The inclination to generalize and the
love of anthitheses often causes us to
overlook the gradual evolution and
perceive only the coarse categories.
It is as with the melodrama whose
power over the masses Ues in the
fact that it works in great contrasts
in black and white, with perfect vir
tues and terrible vices, with figures
who are either as good as angels or
as wicked as demons. The literary
elite smiles at them, but is in itself
by no means unaffected by them out
side the theater. There exists an ex
aggerated worship of the great, which
draws a line between the unknown
and the famous, chieftains and under
lings, as if they belonged to different
races, separated by great empty
spaces, while there is really every
where a continuous how of gradua
tions.
In the domains of character the
gradual rise from weakness to medi
ocrity and from mediocrity to
strength and upwards to hero
ism is rather evident, but the
tortuous paths of Intelligence are far
more mysterious, and the word "ge
nius” Is therefore one which easily
calls forth an impression of immense
gulfs. And still, one ought to be able
to see that if there were an immeas
urable distance between the genius
I and ordinary mortals, then those who
I are not among the chosen few would
I never be able to enjoy the creations
of the minds of the great ones. We
know very well that such is not the
case, and that they do, in fact, enjoy
and are, therefore, bound to come to
the conclusion that there does exist
a bridge. The truth is that there are
numerous connecting links betweeri
Just as there are many steps leading
to perfect physical beauty. Very or-
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dlnary faces may in certain moments
appear imbued with perfect, almost
superhuman beauty. In some people
genius appears suddenly like a single
Hash ot lightning. Rouget d’l’lslc
reached the height of genius during
the night when he created the words
and music of the Marseilles, but this
was the only time. The drama entitled
“The Citizen General," written by
Goethe, who felt Inspired by the great
revolution, shows us very plainly that
even a mind like his had its limita
tions.
Definition Difficult.
Most normally gifted human beings
are apt to have a great idea during
some moment or other of their lives,
but this does not give them any claim
on'the title of genius. To be a genius
it is necessary that the geniality does
not appear . accidentally, but more
spontaneously and in a tolerably, last
ing manner, To give an exact rule
as to when to use the term "genius"
is, of course, impossible. I shall name
an example: the artistic genius'. To
possess this, you must first of all, of
course be an artist, but even this Is a
term which is npt very easily defined.
Wa speak of artists in a matter of
fact way as if they were a distinct
species apart from mechanics or
amateurs or the great public who en
joy their works. But where is the in
dividual line? If you look around you
find artistic elements everywhere in
a bright child who gives life and in
dividuality to its lifeless toys, in lovers
who transform one another into po
etic Ideals you find some thing of the
artist. For what Is art, K not the
giving of a soul to the soulless, the
idealizing of the ordinary, the revela
tion of the Important truth with the
aid of symbols? Is he alone an art
ist who creates works of art? In this
respect opinions differ widely. You
remember Lessing's words that, even
if Raphael had been born without
hands, he would have been the great
est. most genial painter in the world.
This sounds like a paradox, but It Is
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only necessary to take it cum grano
sails to understand a truth which lias
been spoken in a pointed form. There
are many artistic persons who are
unable to create, just as there are
many artists whose works never reach
the height of their ideas and con
ceptions. What prevents this? Pos
sibly there is something the matter
with their nervous system which pre
vents its acting as it ought to. The
failure is sometimes to be found in a
mere trifle, but this causes the connec
tion between the inner conection and
the technical execution to be broken.
This is the tragedy of the great im
perfect, but his visions are superb
while he lucks the means to reproduce
them. I,lke another Tantauls. he sees
the tree above him loaded with gold
en fruits, only the length of a linger
beyond his reach, but his arms lack
even this.
TIk' Happy Combination.
Even a number of unusual gifts;
eminent intellectual power, the most
pronounced craving to create, the
most absolute conscience of what is
your goal, are not enough to form a
genius. A Raphael without hands
would still have possessed his harmo
nious mind, his divine eyesight, his
extraordinary sense of form and color.
He would then have had the soul of
an artist, but a necessary link would ,
have been missing to make him a ge- i
nius. It is very true that to the paint
er the hand Is merely a tool to repro
duce what he sees, but without this
tool he never becomes a painter, far
less a genius. That man has be
come, so to speak, the genius among
the creatures of earth, is due to a hap
py combination; his highly developed
brain, the form of his body, limbs and
the shape of his throat and vocal
chords.
If you imagine one of these missing.
If, for instance, his vocal chords had
been less perfect, he would then have
been unable to formulate a language,
and this again would have prevented
the evolution of his intelligence. Our
whole history would have taken a dif
ferent courses and our positions
on the planet would have been en
tirely different from what it ac
tually is. And as it is with the col
lective genius of humanity, so it is
with the genius of the Individual.
Take away some personal gift of ap
parently small value and a dishar
mony arises which, paralyzes every
thing as a single faulty line may de
stroy the Ideal beauty of a picture.
Think of Darwin or of Bismarck!
What would they have been If the
former had not possessed the patience
of the scientific research and the lat
ter his boundless political ambition?
Still we do not count any of these
two qualities among the very highest.
But what if they had not had them?
Darwin would perhaps have seen a
glimpse of the greatest of ideas, but
he would never have gathered the
P VERY time the gift is used—never mind the years the
& grateful remembrance of the giver comes to mind as no
gift can be purchased from Mike Goggan of a cheap (?) nature.
HPHE PIANOS and Player-Pianos that I sell are more
1 substantial in construction than those pianos of higher
price offered by others.
* | ’HE TONE QUALITIES of the pianos and Player"
Pianos that I sell are not surpassed by the tone quali
ties of some higher priced instruments sold by others.
PRICES of all instruments sold by me are moderate.
* and payments may be made a little at a time—on the
partial payment plan. The prices of all my pianos and
player-pianos are stamped on the plate.
THE INTRINSIC VALUE of all instruments purchased
from me is assured you. as I hold no ‘•Special” sales
after the holidays under the guise of “Stock-Taking”—so
the same make and style piano or player-piano that you
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THE PARTICULAR piano-buying people trade with
MIKE GOGGAN.
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material which compelled the world
to recognize them, and Bismarck
would probably have remained at
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between the duties of a farmer, read
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He would have been a superior mind,
an unusual temperament, a pile of
disjecta membra without a center.
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Dr. Clark’s mission is a part of the I
campaign of Iowa. Although the win-1
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• Mothers in the country districts wiP :
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proper care of babies. Prizes will
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Notable Disc ret ion. fl
"What shall I name the new flats, Mlkfl
asked the builder. fl
"Call ’em the Marguerite," suggested fl
foreman. " ’Tis a pretty name." fl
"A vary pretty name, Mike, but I d"
think I’ll cull anything the Marguerite"
long as my wife's name is Bridget." "
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