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"The first intelligent, rational, and scientific study of a great subject. In the development of his argument Dr. Hirsch frequently finds it necessary to attack the positions assumed by Nordau and Lombroso, his two leading adversaries. . . . Only calm and sober reason endure. Dr. Hirsch possesses that calmness and sobriety. His work will find a permanent place among the authorities of science."-New York Herald. "Dr. Hirsch's researches are intended to bring the reader to the conviction that 'no psychological meaning can be attached to the word genius.' . . . While all men of genius have common traits, they are not traits characteristic of genius; they are such as are possessed by other men, and more or less by all men. . . . Dr. Hirsch believes that most of the great men, both of art and science, were misunderstood by their contemporaries, and were only appreciated after they were dead.' -Miss J. L. Gilder in the Sunday World. 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