An Essay on Genius

Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1774 edition. Auszug: ...is capable. There are various kinds of resemblance, for instance, of contrariety, of causation; one man is naturally influenced chiefly by one kind, another by another kind; the turn of genius in each is suit able to that kind by, which he is most affected. Hence must arise many diversities of genius. Whether a person pass from causes to effects, or from effects to causes, his imagination is influenced by the fame relation: jet all.men are are not equally fitted for both. In mathematics, one man is most turned for algebra, another for geometry. One excells in the analytical part of philosophy, in resolving phenomena into their causes, and reducing them to general laws; and another excells in explaining the phenomena, in applying general principles to a number of casses, and in accounting for them elegantly and successfully. Many of the false systems of philosophy which have made a figure in the world, certainly display very considerable genius, but genius of different kinds. Des Cartes deduced his whole philosophy from a few general principles.: he showed a propensity to pass from causes to their effects. Gilbert endeavoured, in a manner not at all destitute of ingenuity, to resolve all the phenomena of nature into magnetism: the prevailing turn of his imagination was to proceed from effects i to causes. Most commonly, the great divisions of genius arise from the prevalence of one principle of association or another; and the more minute varieties from the prevalence of different modifications of the (ame principle. Yet these 'modifications are sometimes so dissimilar, that the predominance of one or another of them produces produces a difference of genius as great as could be produced by...