CHAPTER V

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Organisation and the power of reproducing thoughts -- Memory of experiences a sign of genius -- Remarks and conclusions -- Remembrance and apperception -- Capacity for comparison and acquisition -- Reasons for the masculinity of music, drawing and painting -- Degrees of genius -- Relation of genius to ordinary men -- Autobiography -- Fixed ideas -- Remembrance of personal creations -- Continuous and discontinuance memory -- Continuity and piety -- Past and present -- Past and future -- Desire for immortality -- Existing psychological explanations -- True origin -- Inner development of man until death -- Ontogenetic psychology or theoretical biography -- Woman lacking in the desire for immortality -- Further extension of relation of memory to genius -- Memory and time -- Postulate of timelessness -- Value as a timeless quality -- First law of the theory of value -- Proofs -- Individuation and duration constituents of value -- Desire for immortality a special case -- Desire for immortality in genius connected with timelessness, by his universal memory and the duration of his creations -- Genius and history -- Genius and nations -- Genius and language -- Men of action and men of science, not to be called men of genius -- Philosophers, founders of religion and artists have genius