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Great Minds To Madness Closely Allied By Grasset Study
Prof Grasset argues that all great minds carry some insanity and that lines between sanity and madness blur. The piece lists brands of semi insanity from erotomania to megalomania and cites Tolstoi, Socrates, Napoleon, Poe, Beethoven and others as examples, noting varying degrees and effects on genius.
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Grasset
Prof. Grasset
New York Sunday World
Prof
Tolstoi
Dr. Berce
Ossip Lourie
Socrates
Athens
Pascal
Auguste Comte
Lake d'Enghein
Walter Scott
Gorki
Guy de Maupassant
Paul Bourget
Villemain
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Gerard de Nerval
Tuileries
Sheba
Palais Royal
Paris
Baudelaire
Alfred de Musset
Cafe de la Regence
de Musset
Napoleon
Zola
Edgar Allan Poe
Haller
Newton
Beethoven
Henry 8. Atkins
St. Louis Asylum
Atkins
Moody