For  example,  Don  (Quixote  has  larse  «□(!  fertile  ideas.  He  U  a  sr&at
renorator,  an  ardent  nonl.  pnamonn>d  of  good  and  jn«tice.  In  <rt'ery-
tblng  he  baa  a<>toDishioK  notion?,  eutkerior  to  the  common  opioiODi  of
ht«  contempomiieii.  [le  conceiv^R  qiifcklj',  inrentfias^/K'Siitioniiof  ^traor^
ideaq.  lie  hni<  the  invention  of  dUcoverere  nod  men  of  genius.  A  lilt  I  p
more  practical  apiril,  and  he  would  reform  hnmanlty.  Bnt,  alas,  he  l«
iDMoe,  »nd  truly  so,  since  the  faintest  trace  of  critical  spirit  Lb  wanting
Id  him.  lie  renders  no  account  of  real  thin(i:i>,  he  is  in  the  clondA;  he
tabes  hi«  imnginattuQ'*  for  verities,  sees  everrthtnK  through  his  dream,
walks  llhe  a  snmnamhalist  Id  common  life.  He  cannoc  arrire  at  ant'
thing;  he  Is  destined  to  finish  In  an  insane  a^Tlum.  notwithstandlDgbu
efforts,  hi«  couraf^e  nnd  hi?  power  of  Hudaolouf)  conceptions.  The
works  of  Kdgar  l*oe  are  full  of  the  fantastic  elempot,  InventloQ.  oriirioal
creation,  assov-iation  of  extraordlaary  Ideas,  which  domioate  abgoluteljr
over  the  cHMchI  f^lde.  Foe  was  somewhat  dipsomaniac  and  eves
alchoholic.  Hi^  works  are  remarkable,  oeverthelefls  they  reMmble  the
waaderingB  of  a  maniac.  But  how  shall  there  be  .1  defence  against  tbe
sentiment  of  horror  In  associatiug  tbos«  who  represent  the  highest
manifestations  of  the  human  mind  with  Idiots  and  crlmlnaU!'

In  some  late  teratulofEical  researches  of  Gegeubauer,  It  Is  shown  tbit
atavistic  regression  does  not  always  lodlcatA  a  real  d^radation,  bol  ts
often  compensAted  for  by  a  development  In  other  directions.  Apes  and
f]Uadniped«  poaMias  a  larger  nonibprof  musclM  thaTi  we  ;  but  by  toeing
tiiclr  udvitutagee  we  huvt-  ^alucd  intellectual  superlMrity.  Giants  pay
for  thplr  ftutare  hy  «tcrlUty  ami  a  relative  fec^bleucAi  of  intelligence;  so
genius  explateit  Its  ititelleetual  power  through  degeneracy  aod
peycboBls,  and  It  Is  for  thU  r«uton  that  tht>  itigns  of  i^geoeracy  an
more  often  found  Jn  genius  than  in  Insanity.  But  it  uiav  be  objected
that  it  U  not  necefiAary  to  refut«  tite  hypothesis  of  Inftanfty  in  genius,
because  force  h  not  feebicnciiis.  health  is  nut  dUease ;  aud  the  caaes  are
merely  exceptional.  'ITie  answer  is  that  the  phy«lcian  knows  very
often,  tlinc  force  in  fever,  in  delirium,  in  epilepsy  is  an  Index  of  disease.
