Chapter 5

Youth of genius.--Its first impulses may be illustrated by its subsequent actions.--Parents have another association of the man of genius than we.--Of genius, its first habits.--Its melancholy. --Its reveries.--Its love of solitude.--Its disposition to repose. --Of a youth distinguished by his equals.--Feebleness of its first attempts.--Of genius not discoverable even in manhood.--The education of the youth may not be that of his genius.--An unsettled impulse, querulous till it finds its true occupation.--With some, curiosity as intense a faculty as invention.--What the youth first applies to is commonly his delight afterwards.--Facts of the decisive character of genius. 31