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Semi-Insanity and the Pathology of Genius Explored
Dr Grasset divides humanity into sane, insane, and semi insane with a threefold model. He argues intellect can coexist with irrationality and that literature and music reveal mass examples of semi insanity. The piece notes his diagram of cerebral neurons and the practical rule that semi insane offenders need hospital confinement after initial culpability trial.
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Misanthrope
Régis
Shakespeare
Grasset
Ibsen
Wagner
Siegfried
Philtro
Funk & Wagnalls
Smith Ely Jelliffe
Fordham University
Dostoiewski
Tolstoy
Turgenef
Aeschylus
Moliére
Goethe
Demiscus
Erasmus
Anatole France
Socrates
Pascal
Auguste Comite
Dostojewski
Gorky
Guy de Maupassant
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Flaubert
Alfred de Musset
Zola
Balzac
Victor Hugo
Tasso
Schopenhauer
Swift
Poe
Newton
Cromwell
Sechilier
Byron
Darwin
Dr. Grasset
Lombroso
Moreau de Tours
Cyrano
M. Bonnefoy