" Is it any depreciation of the great military geniuses of the past to say that, if suddenly plunged into the midst of a modern engagement, they would be worse than worthless, that, without the requisite knowledge and experience, their genius would be useless? Yet do we not desiderate that same genius for our own leaders, without which all their knowledge and experience are of no avail ?..... "...

So melancholy a neglect of Darwin’s work suggests reflections upon the use of those rare and precious possessions of man—great books. It was, we believe, the custom of the late Professor Freeman to warn his students that mastery of one great book was worth any amount of knowledge of many lesser ones. The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much s...

The historian-theoretician Christian Norberg-Schulz, examining the development of his ideas across 30 years. While Norberg-Schulz started out with Intentions in Architecture (1963), a work that was clearly influenced by structuralist studies, he soon shifted to a phenomenological approach with Existence, Space and Architecture (1971), and then with Genius Loci (1980) and The Concept of Dwelling...

ABSTRACT The article aims to show the central importance of Friedrich Nietzsche notions genius in nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On one hand, it considers influence idealised representations (for example, Thomas Mann Gottfried Benn) as a marked by loneliness, illness, finally madness. other seeks trace significance ‘genius’ within Nietzsche's oeuvre . It transpires that concept is not only...

to treat of the inheritance and transmission of mental deficiency with any degree of precision. Dr. Tredgold inveighs against the all-too-common belief that genius is so intimately connected with insanity that we must cheerfully put up with the latter for the sake of the former. He maintains that the great majority of men and women of outstanding ability have been particularly sane and have com...

Great amounts of wealth can be represented by intellectual property (“IP”), including computer software. Computer software creators, and other inventors, artists authors, may desire to enthusiastically support their favorite charitable endeavors. The tax consequences for the creative genius donating his or her IP charity will depend on whether creation is protected patent, trade secret trademar...

" Is it any depreciation of the great military geniuses of the past to say that, if suddenly plunged into the midst of a modern engagement, they would be worse than worthless, that, without the requisite knowledge and experience, their genius would be useless? Yet do we not desiderate that same genius for our own leaders, without which all their knowledge and experience are of no avail ?..... "...

That genius is often allied to tuberculosis, or even possibly inspired by it, is an old time observation, and in this booh the author gives brief bibliographies of twenty-four very eminent persons who were all the subjects of pulmonary tuberculosis. His style is easy and pleasant to read, but this chief purpose is propaganda?of the right order. In former times the tuberculous genius had but a s...

studies addressing such concepts as place, sense of place, place attachment, place identity, place dependence, rootedness, genius loci, topophilia, and place-making can be found in count-less disciplinary and applied fields devoted to the design, planning, stewardship, and restoration of places that vary in kind and scale from homes, neighborhoods, and cities to parks, and ecosystems. this arti...