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Section 33 of Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume 2, The Early Mental Traits of 300 Geniuses, by Catherine Cox. For more information on a volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recorded by Leon Harvey. Chapter 20, Cases Rated at AIIQ, 160-170, Part 2. Christoph Martin Weyland, 1733-1813.

A German poet and author. AIIQ 160, AIIIQ 160. 1. Family Standing. Weyland's great-great-father was a man of consequence and property, and the mayor of his city. The grandfather and father were both village pastors, the latter an orthodox pietist. The father was interested in science and philosophy.

Weyland's mother, daughter of a major in the Baden family and granddaughter of an apothecary and architect, was a lively, witty, and elegant lady. 2. Development to age 17 1. Interests Wieland, as a child, was serious-minded and did not care for full sports. From his mother he learned love of cleanliness and preferred to go hungry rather than muddy himself by getting the pennies for the bake-oarth that he dropped in a dirty puddle.

He loved the beauty of natural surroundings. In the pietistic Madigberg school, he was affected by a mystical religious atmosphere. At 15 he became a materialist for a time, believing nothing without scrutiny and proof. He even doubted the existence of God, and this cost him many sleepless nights and tears. The elder Wayland had planned for his son to study theology, but partly because of the boy's enthusiasm for unorthodox views, he finally decided on law as a profession for him.

2. Education The boy's first teacher was his father, who taught him to read and write when he was three. began Latin with him sometime before he was six, and also developed in him a love of science. At home, the boy had to learn the Bible and hymnal almost by heart.

At thirteen and a half and before going to the famous Klosterbergen School near Magdeburg, Wayland had studied Latin, Greek, Hebrew, mathematics, logic and history under his father and other teachers. He had also learned to draw. Three, school standing and progress.

Wylan's teacher, the fat little rector, was horrified by the ten-year-old's presumptuous criticisms of Virgil and Horace, and two years later the boy understood his Horace better than did his instructor. At Magberg, Wylan made good progress in literature and was especially noted for his achievement in Hebrew and Latin. He made good German-metrical translations from Cicero. History and geography were zealously followed.

4. Friends and Associates At 13, Weiland fell in and out of love with a 15-year-old postgirl who sang folk songs prettily. At Magburg, one teacher especially understood him as a second father to him, while on his holidays at Erifert, a witty, optimistic relative, Dr. Balmer, cultivated his tendency to wide reading and critical thought.

The boy was always fond of association with his elders. At 16, Weiland became engaged to his cousin, Sophie, a brilliant, charming girl, two years his senior, whose interest and encouragement spermed him to write De nature de dinge, published two years later. 5. Reading As a child, Wyland was required to read daily in Scriver's ceiling charts,

and doing Lent in Rambach's considerations on the passion. At 8 he read Nepos' Life with fiery enthusiasm, and devoured the works of Corshed. At 10 he began to read Virgil and Horace. From 13 to 15 he studied Livy, Terence and Virgil, and with special interest Cicero, Sinophon's, Syropathy and Socrates' memorabilia.

Of more modern works, those of Brox, the philosophical lexicon of Schneider, volumes of Bale and Voltaire, these in secret, Bretinger, Hayler and Bodmer were read between the boys' 11th and 16th year. At 15 he read the Tatler, Spectator and Guardian, as well as Don Quixote, and became acquainted for the first time with Klopstock's messiahs,

starting up with greater enthusiasm than he had bestowed on the previous work. 6. Production Achievement C2-4 7. Evidences of Precocity Wayland's first love at the age of one was his ugly nurse, and his second was his mother. His courliest recollection includes a clear picture of the flowering meadows of his birthplace

and a definite memory of a young pastor who took him before he was three for a walk and let him gather yellow blossoms. AIIQ 160 Relative Coaching of Data .75 3. Development from 17 to 26 At 17, Weiland went to Tübingen on a scholarship, but finding that the lectures were not to his taste and that attendance required too much valuable time,

he did not even register at the university, staying instead in his room, where he read and wrote poetry. He studied Liebnits and Boyle, read Lucritius and Antilucritius by Polinac, and Pope's Rape of the Lock, and on these modeled his own work. Die Natur der Dinge, a didactic poem. He is sent to Dr. Meyer in Switzerland, who is delighted with it and had it printed. His second poem, In Praise of Love, written in flowery musical Alexandrins,

contains the whole philosophy of the 17-year-old author. His appearance was greeted with enthusiasm. His next poem, an epic, Hormann. Although favourably criticised by Bodmer, the author decided to revise. But other interests intervened and remained unfinished.

The next year, several poems were written in Alexandrine's unrhymed imbex, hexameters, and free verse, all contributing to an anatomy of love and showing that the author has studied literature as well as his own heart. Wishing to hasten the time when he might marry his sophic, he thought of becoming a schoolteacher. No position offered, and in 19 he gave up the scheme for a time and went to Zurich to visit the poet Bodmer. A little later he learned of Sophia's engagement to another.

His grief was poured out in a series of poems, three hymns, two odes and a number of other works, largely on religious subjects. His authorship of a plan for an educational institution, published anonymously, was recognised because his style was already widely known. In the meantime, the youth, aged 20, was vetted in Zurich as a poet of distinction. He read and studied and made many friends among literary people. Cyrus, and the successful play Johanna Gray, are his most important works of the period.

At 25, Finland left Zurich and went to Bern, where he had accepted a teaching appointment. AIIIQ 160, Relative Coaching Data 0.75 John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848, the 6th President of the United States. AIIIQ 165, AIIIQ 165 1. Family Steaming

John Quincy Adams' father was John Adams. See page 273 for Paternal Ancestry. The mother, Abigail Smith, came of Puritan stock and numbered among her forebears, men and women of strong character and a marked ability, including a distinguished legislator and a noted clergyman. Abigail herself was a woman of striking personality and superior talents, whose delicate health had prevented her from receiving more than a slight education. 2. Development to age 17

1. Interests At the age of seven, John Quincy heard the battle echoes of Bunker Hill, saw the flaming rumen of Charlestown, and was deeply impressed by the call of patriotism. His mother taught him to repeat daily, after the Lord's Prayer, the Ode of Collins on the Patriot Warriors, verses which he never forgot. He was characteristic of the serious boy that he was vexed with himself at the age of ten, because his thoughts were running after bird's eggs, play, and trifles. To Education

In his early years, as well as latter, the boy learned much by fortunate association. His mother exercised great authority over him, and she was his first teacher. Three young law students talked with him and gave him practical assistance during his earlier school years. The trend of his thought of this period is shown by an inquiry in a letter to his father, written when he was ten, in which he asked advice as to how he should proportion his studies and his play.

During a first visit abroad at the age of 11, Adams entered school in Passau near Paris, where French, Latin, dancing, fencing, music, and drawing were taught. The next year, he and his brother Charles attended an ancient letter school in Amsterdam, spending the vacations with their father and under his direction studying Greek at breakfast and Euclid's supper. At 13, young Adams spent five months at the University of Leiden,

where confining himself little to the regular routine. He worked forward independently. Ladder who spent more than a year in St. Petersburg studying and reading by himself as there were no schools to attend, and beginning at this time the study of German. 3. School Standing and Progress At Passy, Adams gained great fluency in French.

At Amsterdam, he had an excellent master in Latin and Greek who was pleased with him and his brother. At this time, he transcribed a Greek grammar of his master's composition and also a treatise on Roman antiquities. 4. Friends and Associates During prolonged absences of his father, John became his mother's confidential companion. He was much with older people, both at home and later when accompanying his father on missions abroad.

5. Reading In his 11th year, John Quincy's pleasure and interest were already developed, for at this time he requested a blank book in which to keep record of the most remarkable occurrences he met with in his reading. At the same period, he reports studying a third volume of Smollett. On his trip to Russia, aged 14, he read Voltaire's description of St. Petersburg and grave works

of history like those of Hume and Robertson. He translated several of Cicero's orations and transcribed favourite passages from the most noted of the English poets. 6. Production and Achievement

On shipboard when returning to America, aged 12, Adams taught the French ambassador of English, astonishing his distinguished pupil by his knowledge and mastery of linguistics. Three months later he began his famous journal, which was thereafter continued throughout his life. In his earliest notes and observations show maturity of thought and interest.

At the age of 14, young Adams acted as Dana's private secretary and interpreter on a mission to Russia, and two years later he became one of his father's secretaries during the peace negotiations at Paris, 1783. At the age of 15, the young diplomat alone made a six-month journey from St. Petersburg to Paris v Stockholm and Copenhagen.

An electly letter describing the journey discusses intelligently such topics as the treatment of strangers in Sweden, the policy of King, Denmark and its government, Hamburg and its commerce, and the wine cellars of Bremen. Extracts from his diary show that John Quincy was, at 17, a careful observer, a sober critic endowed with balanced rational judgment.

7. Evidences of Prococity, C2-6 AI IQ 165, Relative Kosher Data 0.82 3. Development from 17 to 26 At the age of 18, John Quincy Adams returned to America

after spending six months in preparatory study at Haverhill. He was admitted to Harvard in the junior class. He took up the study of languages, mathematics, natural philosophy and metaphysics and engaged in forensic disputations. He soon attained sufficient distinction to be chosen by his class

as one of four honorary thesis collectors. After less than two years in residence, Adams was graduated with honour and he delivered out of the commencement exercises an oration of the importance and necessity of public faith to the well-being of a government. From 20 to 23, he studied law at New Boyport,

with an eminent jurist, Theophilus Parsons, and was thereafter admitted to the bar. The draft and address presented to President Washington by the citizens of New Boyport was prepared by Adams, then his 23rd year. Before he was 25, young Adams had gained fame and home and abroad by articles published in the Boston Sentinel, in which he refuted the arguments of an older political writer. So able were his discussions that they were attributed to his father, then Vice President of the United States.

AIIIQ 165 Relive Coastal Data Pointed to Henry Benjamin Constant de Rebicu 1767-1830 A French political writer, orator, and politician AIIQ 165, AIIQ 160

1. Family Standing Constance's paternal grandfather was a lieutenant colonel in the Dutch Army, a religious upright man of high principles. His father, a very intelligent but rather eccentric person, likewise held a commission in the Dutch service. The maternal grandfather was also an army officer. 2. Development to 817

1. Interests Almost from infancy, Constant evinced keen interest in intellectual matters. At the age of seven, he began to dream of literary fame. He early displayed uncommon musical talent and said that, had he taken enough interest in music, he could have become a great master. From the age of 14, he developed a taste for gambling and other forms of racketschness,

for which his previous upbringing more than sufficiently accounts. 2. Education Constant was first placed under the care of a tutor at the age of five. His teacher, though erratic and violent, must have had some ability, for he conceived and executed the novel project of teaching his pupil Greek, while leading the boy to believe that he was himself inventing the language. In his eighth year, Benjamin was taken to Brussels by his father, and there he turned over for guidance to a former surgeon of the father's regiment.

Under the instruction of a skilful musician, the boy now became highly proficient on the piano. His tutor, former surgeon, was however discovered to have become involved in a scandal, and so after a brief stay at the home of his music teacher, the lad now nine years of age was consigned to a French lawyer. This person in turn proved to be just such a character as a Brussels surgeon.

He taught the boy nothing. At the age of twelve, Constance left the home of his third tutor, convinced for the first time that the people who had been charged with his instruction were themselves very ignorant and very immoral men. The older Constant removed his son to Switzerland

and there entrusted him to the care of an unfucked monk who had escaped from his monastery. Under this man's instruction, Constant made fair progress during the ensuring year. At the age of 13, he was enrolled at Oxford, but his father soon perceived that he was still too young to benefit

by the opportunities offered in English university life. Accordingly, an English tutor was procured under whose charge The boy remained for over a year in Switzerland and Holland. Then, after some temporary instruction from still another master, Constant, aged 14, was enrolled in the University of Erlangen.

Introduction to the court to the Margrave of Beirut led to participation in dissipations which interfered with the pursuit of study. And so the elder Constant eventually took his son, aged 15 and 3 fourths, to Edinburgh and enrolled him in the university, where he remained in residence for 18 months. The first twelve of these made the most pleasant years of his life. Work was fashionable among the young men at Edinburgh,

and Constant formed several very close connections with men who later became famous. 3. School studying and progress. We find Constant at the age of ten writing to his grandmother that he has learned Latin and Greek, and all that one has to know. At the University of Erlingen, he seems to have made fairly satisfactory progress,

and he was industrious during his first year at Edinburgh. See also, 2, 5 and 7. 4. Friends and Associates In the course of his wanderings from country to country, from tutor to tutor, and from university to university, Constant made many friends, unfortunately not all, of the highest character.

He evinced as early as his 10th or 11th year a precarious interest in the opposite sex. See also, 2, 2. 5. Reading At nine, Cosselin wrote to his grandmother that he was reading Roman history in addition to Pliny, Seneca, Cicero and Homer, whose poetry I love and who amuses me while giving me great ideas.

At the same age, during his brief stay at the home of his music master, C22, he discovered in the neighbourhood a library which contained all the novels in the world and all the irreligious works, then so much in the fashion. He says, I used to read for eight or ten hours a day everything which came to hand, from the works of La Métrie to the novels of Cribillon, and my head and my eyes have felt the effects of it all my life. 6. Production and Achievement

Letters from Constant to his grandmother, written from the boy's tenth year onward, are preserved. They are copious, gossiping and sparkling with precocious cleverness. Between the ages of 7 and 13, the boy wrote at least eight productions of which the titles had been preserved, including a prayer, a tragedy, a moral meditation, a pastoral and unfinished heroic romance in five cantos, entitled The Cavaliers. The two last mentioned were composed at the age of 12.

Before he was 12, Benjamin wrote to his grandmother that between times he was composing an opera, both words and music. He continued, It will be very beautiful, and I am not afraid of its being hissed. 7. Evidence of the Prococity One of Constance's cousins afterwards wrote of him,

His infancy caused much disturbance, as he had an inflammable disposition, and showed a procreous development which demanded careful guidance. When his burning activity was well-directed, his exceeding anything he tried and success pleased him immensely. At the age of seven he already learned to be famous

and talked to his father and grandmother very seriously about his works, science and his occupations. Before he was eight he could play a difficult sonata on the piano, and at nine he could read anything, i.e. any music, at sight. Even his earliest letters to his grandmother display a rare ability, 0.02, 2 and 6. AI IQ 165 Relative Cuitary Data, 0.82. 3. Development from 17 and 26. Young Constant,

eight 17 and a half, weighed with heavy gambling debts, left Edinburgh and after some weeks in in London arrived in Paris, where he became acquainted with a dissolute Englishman and was soon again involved in depth and folly. Recalled by his father to Brussels and then in consequence of a love affair to Switzerland, he began to apply himself to writing a history of polytheism, but ignorance and laziness precluded the production of more than a few

lines. Continued love affairs became a further load on his pen. His father finally appeared and moved the young man to Paris. Here he spent a pleasant enough time. It was here that he learned liaison with a woman 27 years his senior. He indulged in other love affairs and in gambling until hearing of the approach of an envoy from his father,

he fled to England and thence to Edinburgh. After a voluntary exile of short duration, he returned to Paris and his elderly charmer. At the age of 20 and a half, Constance became champion at the court of the Duke of Brunswick,

where his chief occupation seems to have been, as before, indulgence in amours. Very shortly after, he assisted in winning the acquittal of his father, who had been accused of embezzling regimental funds, and so complete was the elder Constance's exoneration that he was reinstated with the rank of general.

At 22, Benjamin married Baroness Turam, but broke the bond five years later when he began his liaison with Madame de Stael and started upon his political career. A.I.I.I.Q. 160 Relative Cotterad 0.75 Gabriel Honoré de Recruti 1749-1791

The greatest orator of the French Revolution AIIQ 165 AIIQ 175 1. Family Standing The Mirabille family belonged to the nobility.

They possessed many unusual talents, but they were hot-blooded with a streak of madness. Mirabille's father was brilliant, clever, severe, ambitious, self-confident and vicious. His mother, whose family also belonged to the nobility, and among whose relatives were a number of insane persons, was indolent, slovenly, frivolous, and passionate. 2. Development to age 17. 1. Interests.

2. Education. At four and a half, Mirabiro's education began under a tutor. The boy progressed rapidly, and at fourteen his instruction was directed by a number of choice masters. His wild nature, his madness according to his father, was however never more than partially concealed by the restraint of training. And after the difficult early years as the ugly duckling in a family, none of whom understood him,

Mirabiro, aged 15, was sent to Versailles to be educated in the household of a M. de Segrés. At the end of three months, Segrés announced to the parents that he would remain in the boy's jailer as long as they wished, but he could do nothing with him educationally. and so the youth was sent before he reached his 16th birthday to a boarding school in Paris. At the close of his first year, for reasons unstated, Meribio was to be removed in order

that he might be submitted to more severe discipline elsewhere, but his comrade had sent a deputation to the Marquis and secured a suspension of the sentence. 3. School standing on progress. In his earlier school years, Meribio appears to have been conspicuous for his strange behaviour rather than for his superior intellect. It was left for a master of mathematics in the Paris school to distinguish him from his fellows on account of the nature of his questions and the problem with which he found the solution for a problem.

Outside of the mathematics class, however, the boy accomplished practically nothing, for most of the regular schoolwork failed to appeal to his imagination and appear to him insipid. 4. Friends and Associates No specific report. Teachers and schoolfellows at Paris were so attached to him. See also 2-3.

5. Reading The mathematics teacher at the Paris school, seeing Mirabeau, aged 15, totally unoccupied, proposed that he work with him. And so they came to read together Locke's essay on the human understanding. Mirabeau awakened, as from a dream, at the conclusion of the reading, and cried, There is the book that I needed.

6. Production achievement At five and a half, Mirabeau was told by his tutor to write anything that came into his head. The composition written on this occasion is preserved and shows mastery of grammar, an extensive vocabulary, and a range of sentiment far beyond his years. Before the age of fifteen, the boy began writing energetic verse with great facility,

but after reading Locke, he gave this up as a talent that had been injurious to him. 7. Evidences of Prococity An extraordinary creature at birth, Mirabir was huge, with a disproportionately large head, and an ugliness that commanded attention. Two teeth were already cut when he was born.

When this extraordinary boy was five, the father wrote of him that he was remarkably inquisitive and very active, and that his knowledge was a talk of all Paris. He added, however, that the talented youth had a little character and required careful supervision. He keeps us busy, but we have an eye on him. Shortly before he was eight, Mirabou was confirmed.

It was explained to him at this time that God could not make incompatible things, as for example, a stick that had but one end. I asked if a miracle was not a stick that had but one end. My grandmother never pardoned me for that. At nine, the young prodigy was uglier than ever.

In a marvellous manner, his mother on one occasion made some declaration to him in the name of his future wife. He replied that he hoped she would not look at him and visage. His mother asked ingeniously, where would you have her look at you? Orr laughed, but he retorted,

the inside will help the outside. A severe illness at 10, during which the father wrote, the worst symptom is that he is as reasonable as if he were 30 years old, reformed his character from its earlier ill-humour, baseness and falsehood. A little later, the father wrote,

this child, although turbulent, is gentle and facile, but of a facility that inclines to worthlessness. At 13, the boy had apparently relapsed into his earlier erratic ways, and the father speaks of him as this fiery, well-headed eldest son, each day more troublesome and insane.

AIIQ 165 Relative Courage of Data 0.60 3. Development from 17 and 26 Mirabeo, age 17, discovered an eulogy of the Prince of Condé, which was considered superior in clearness and elegance to similar productions of his father. At 18, he entered the army, and a year later was commissioned a second lieutenant,

but shortly afterward, he was imprisoned for seven months for desertion. At the age of 20, he was released in order to join an expedition to Corsica, where although he saw very little fighting, he demonstrated nevertheless a genius for war. His major said that he had never known a man with greater talents than the Comte de Mirabel, for the profession of arms.

If time had rendered him discreet, a little later, Mirabel's uncle declared his nephew full of repentance for his past faults, and stated further that as for his intellect, the devil has not as much. This uncle was of the opinion that Mirabel would become a very great man in almost any field he might choose. During the next two years, years 22nd and 23rd, Mirabel enjoyed his father's confidence

and impressed his parent by the enormous amount of work he could accomplish. At 22, after receiving a commissioner's captain, the youth visited Paris and Versailles, where he spent much time in the libraries. Strained relations now began to arise between father and son, and the conditions were not improved by the latter's marriage at 23. In the following year, a son was born, and deaths began to accumulate.

The Maragruz obtained an order forbidding his son to leave the castle, and later procured his exile. During his honeymoon and term of exile, Mirabeau wrote his essay on despotism, and published it in Geneva. Geneva. Afterward, he condemned this moment of daring. At the time of its first publication, the work was so popular because of its outspoken criticisms of the King and the state of France that it ran through two editions and created a sensation not only in Switzerland but in France

as well. AIIIQ 175 Relative Culture Data 0.75. Bohrhold George Neubauer, 1776-1831, A celebrated German historian, philosopher and critic. AIIQ 165 AIIIQ 175 1. Family Standing

Although Nauber's father belonged by birth to the Danish peasantry, he became a lieutenant of engineers and won such distinction for his scholarship and scientific studies, made in Egypt, Arabia and Syria, as to entitle him to mention in the leading encyclopedias. He is described as self-sacrificing and unexacting. and irreproachable character.

The mother, a woman of education and refinement, was the daughter of a Danish royal physician. 2. Development to age 17 1. Interests Between his sixth and his eighth year,

Noeber was interested in a variety of pastimes, in which his father often participated as guide or patron. Barthold learned to draw architect's plans with his father's assistance. He learned to build miniature fortifications in the garden, and to attack and defend them according to rule.

and he began the study of numismatics when on Sundays he was permitted to take casts from a collection of seals and coins which his father had collected for the purpose. The boys' activities were, however, not all of so serious a nature

for often in the early years, neighbour children were invited to join the family in the evenings and then dancing to the father's violin and complement offered diversion and exercise. Neighbour's poetical interest was first aroused when he was seven

C.27. And amusements, he contrived, at that age show a rare combination of developed poetical insight with accurate practical observation. C.26. An enthusiastic interest in German literature began at about the same age. The boy's interest in politics developed in his twelfth year and became so strong during the period of the war with Turkey that he repeated war intelligence aloud in his sleep. From 11 to 16, his interest extended to history, politics, literature, geography, statistics, and military science, and he pursued all of these studies with eager devotion.

2. Education The parents, especially the father, seem to have devoted themselves to the training and education of their children with an attention rarely seen. Nyberg began his fourth and fifth years to learn the three R's from a tutor he assisted sharing in the lessons. Their father soon began to instruct the children in geography. He told many and vivid stories from history, especially the history of the Orient.

He taught his son English, French, a little mathematics, and sixth the Greek alphabet. And he conversed with him on all topics of the day, training him to make maps and to work out military engineering problems. Beginning at the age of seven, Naibiru was taught French by Madame Boge, a distinguished friend of his parents. In his eighth or ninth year, he began to receive private lessons from one of the masters of the gymnasium. At 13, he entered the gymnasium in the highest class,

but in the following year, the school director advised removing him from the regular school duties and offered away his self-directed progress by a daily private lesson of one hour. After this plan was adopted, the lessons were continued until Nibir was 18 and ready to enter the university. In his course of private study, the youth included the classics, modern languages, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, mathematics, and wide reading on many subjects.

At 15, he was confirmed. The following year, he spent three months in the Busch School of Commerce in Hamburg. Thereafter, he devoted much time to collating manuscripts sent him for the purpose by two distinguished scholars, Monteur and Heine, the latter of whom was so impressed with the ability of the young scholar that he wished to assume the direction of his studies. 3. School Standing and Progress

Neubauer learned rapidly and with interest in all subjects, except mathematics. At the age of six, he learned the Greek alphabet in a single day and had no further trouble with it. At this age, so passionate and sensitive was he that a single slip in repeating his lessons or any reference to his scribblings would produce an impetuous storm. At several rate, he was already superior to his tutor in the classics

and was known to have assisted the latter in reading beyond the day's task. In the gymnasium, Nyberg, aged 13, found himself by far the youngest and by far the most advanced in his class. From 14 to 18 he carried on his studies, for the most part privately, assisted, however, by the guidance of his father and the school director. In the Haberg School of Commerce, Neubauer 816 was out of his element,

for the noisy life irritated him after a few months. He persuaded his father to permit his return home. Four friends and associates. The Neubauer is associated with intelligent and highly cultivated people who took a great interest in young Barthold.

Bulge, editor of the Duchess Museum, who was a man of high intellect and taste, and an intimate friend to the father, awakened to the boy an aesthetic and poetical turn of mind. The poet Vos, Bulge's brother-in-law, recognized Newbo's remarkable talents, and assisted him by his counsel, especially in the classical studies. At school, Neuber, aged 13, was a favourite with his schoolfellows.

At 16, he met Prenn, several years his senior, secretary to the prefecture, and the two became close friends, for they had a common interest in the study of the political and economic conditions of their native province. 5. Reading In addition to the opportunities for reading afforded at home, Neubauer had access to Boulger's library, which was rich in English, French and German books.

During his teens, his reading was largely in the fields of history, politics, literature, statistics, geography and military science. 6. Production and Achievement From a tender age, Noibu displayed literary and artistic ability. In early childhood, he covered such waste papers he could find with original writings and drawings. Then he made copybooks in which he wrote essays, mostly on political subjects.

And still later, he drew maps, promulgated laws, waged wars, and made little trees of peace for an imaginary empire, Low England. Before he was 11, this boy had written translations and interpretations of the New Testament, political phrases from the classics, sketches of little poems, a translation of Ponset's travels in Ethiopia, and a historical and geographical description of Africa. The last two were birthday presents to his father.

At the age of 12, he was frequently engaged in making out statistical tables, lists of mortality, etc., and he assisted his father in making state revenue calculations. 7. Evidences of Precocity Before he was five years old, Nybu had distinguished himself by his quickness. and by his ready and sure apprehension of what he learned.

He was soon ahead of his sister, who was two years his senior, and after finishing his task more quickly than she, he would dance roguishly round her, singing, Rest is sweet when work is done. The father quotes his friend Boge to the effect that he does not know

the equal of the six-year-old number. The elder neighbor realized that his son required unusual handling, and he was concerned to give the rapidly developing mind and body the requisite guidance and training. Just before he was seven, the boy heard Boge read Macbeth aloud to the family.

Seeing Barthol's interest, the distinguished literary scholar took plans to make the work intelligible to his young hearer. When the reading was finished, Noeber sat down and wrote out the whole tale on seven sheets of paper without omitting a single important point. And certainly without any expectation of receiving praise for it. When his father asked to see what he had written and showed it to me, Bouges, he cried for fear that he had not done it well, since then he writes down everything of importance that he hears from his father or me. We seldom praise him, but just quietly tell him where he has made any mistake, and he avoids the fault for the future.

Before he was eight, Neuburg was able to read any English book without help. Predictions made his 12th year as to the movements of the armies in the Turkish war were usually fulfilled for the boy's acquaintance with the art of war. Their geography of country and the character of the commanders was already minute and reliable. Some letters recording his skillful pronouncements are still extant. The war in the Netherlands excited even greater interest and aroused its great study.

At 11 or 12, Nibiru was often called upon in conversations between his father and other distinguished men to give information on geographical, statistical, historical, and other subjects. And this he did so ably that all were astonished. His statistical knowledge especially was extraordinary. During his father's serious illness, Nibiru, aged 16, carried on the financial part of his father's official duties. The boy's ability to predict with remarkable accuracy the outcome of popular movements and military campaigns during the course of the French Revolution excited the astonishment of the eminent statesman, Count P. A. Bernsdorf.

AIIQ 165, relative coefficient of data 0.75. 3. Development from 17 to 26. From his 16th through 17th year, Neubauer was engaged in study at home. At 18 he continued his academic pursuits at the University of Kiel, where he found his position and surroundings more agreeable than at Hamburg, and where he made important friendships

with Dr. Hensler and Frau Hensler, the doctor's daughter-in-law, with Professor Kramer and Reinhold. He studied history, law, philosophy, physics, chemistry, philology, and aesthetics. Of these, history and philology were his favourites, but this time he is known to have expressed the view that a universal history ought to be written. At the age of 19, Nogbo received an

invitation from the Danish Minister of Finance to become his private secretary. This post he accepted, discharged his duties to the complete satisfaction of his master, Count Shyamalan, but when a little later he was offered a secretarial position at the Royal Library, he gave up his duties with the minister because the new position promised to provide more opportunity for post-study and travel. While performing his duties in the library,

Edinburgh planned and carried out an exacting course of study and conduct. During his 23rd and 24th years, he travelled in England where he strove to become informed, even on the minutest detail of all matters connected with the country and people. He went from London to Edinburgh, where he studied chiefly mathematics and natural sciences. Returning to Denmark in his 24th year, he was granted a government position.

He married soon after. He was offered a professorship in the University of Kiel, but declined it, preferring for various reasons to continue his government service. In his spare time, now he made a study of Greek history and the Greek constitution. AIIQ 175, Relative Quotient Trader 0.75

Fra Paolo Pietro Sapri, 1552-1623 A Venetian historian, AIIQ 165, AIIQ 175 1. Family Standing The historian's father, Francesco Sarpi, was a man of hardy frame and bold nature, better fitted for the arts of war than those of peace which he pursued.

He died an unsuccessful merchant, leaving the family in straitened circumstances. The mother, Isabella de Morelli, was of a Venetian family of good standing. She was endowed with a retired, gentle, devout, and contemplative spirit, and was intellectually superior and possessed of sagacity and judgment. Her famous son is said to have strongly resembled her.

2. Developmentoid 17 1. Interests From his earliest years, Sarpy's absorbing enthusiasm was for learning in all its branches. He took no part in the ordinary boys' games and sports, for he was delicate, retiring, serious, silent, thoughtful, almost melancholy. 2. Education

His first teacher was his mother, and his second was his maternal uncle. The boy was sent at the age of 12 as a day scholar to Fra Gainmararia Capella, a frio in the Servite Monastery. He began a five-year novitiate there, as some months later continuing out of his lead his Latin, Greek, Hebrew, philosophy and mathematics, to which were later added theology and many of the sciences. 3. School standing on progress Soapy finished his uncle's school at the unusually early age of twelve,

after holding throughout his course the place he had held through life, and that he was the top of his class. His remarkable abilities in his industry and his perseverance were recognised, for he mastered with ease everything put into his hands, and his powers of memory were extraordinary.

He disclaimed tales of his marvellous retentiveness by stating that he could repeat no more than thirty lines of Virgil after a single hearing. He had beaten all his companions in every department of study, for he was consistently an excellent scholar, and he had become, at the early age of thirteen, a critical thinker as well. Even before the close of his novitiate, he saw through the fallacies of accepted philosophical systems, and was able, by his just and powerful criticisms, to convince his master of their inadequacy. So completely did he convince Fra Gianmaria, an adored follower of Duns Scotus, of the errors in that schoolman's reasoning, that the master's faith was shaken.

Fra Gianmaria used to say, I have learnt not a little from Paolo in the various subjects I am teaching him. Saipu is chosen thrice as public disputant, two of these elections occurring before his 16th year. 4. Friends and Associates Sarpy's early companions were the young aristocrats of his uncle's school, rich boys indifferent to study and addicted to luxury. He had none of their tastes, and yet he was a favourite among them, and formed lifelong friendships with several of their number, including Andrea Morosini, later a noted historian, and Leonardo Donato, art-worded doge of Venice.

5. Reading Sarpy was passionately devoted to reading. So conspicuous was this attachment that there was a saying among his schoolfellows, all we others to our frivolities, and Pierre Hinault to his books. Six production achievement

Pietro's mother and uncle wished the boy to become a priest, but he was intent on entering a monastery where he would not be tied to the performance of church officers. He wanted to combine the advantages of the cloister with a world of action. He was encouraged by his design by Fra Giomaria, his teacher, who knew the game he would be in that order. The resistance of the family was finally overcome, and, at the age of 13, Pietro changed his name to Paolo.

Entered the North 58. On each of his two early appearances, age 13 and 15, as public disputant for the servants, Saabie manifested an immense knowledge and an ingenuity and ability which at once confounded every opponent set up against him. and amazed and delighted the great and distinguished audience. 7. Evidence of Prococity, C2-1-6 Inclusive, AIIQ 165, Relative Correctional Data 0.60.

3. Development from 17 to 26. At the age of 18, after a third brilliant exhibition as public disputant, Paolo was appointed by Bishop Baldrino to the Chair of Positive Theology and Sacred Canons in his cathedral, and the great Duke Gonzaga attached to him the Mantuan court as his private theologian. The superior of his order in Venice consented to his accepting these positions,

and the Brotherhood showed its appearance of his worth and learning by assigning him a yearly stipend for the purchase of books. He discharged his offices with exceptional ability and success, and his fame as a Hebrew and Greek scholar and as a theologian soon spread far beyond the wars of Mantua. On one occasion his superior knowledge and ability excited the jealousy of a certain friar who denounced him to the Inquisition, but without success.

For Sarpy was fully vindicated, and the local priests who had taken up their friar's quarrel were advised to let the professor alone. Just after becoming a priest, Sarpy was appointed, aged 22, to the chair of philosophy in his old monastery, and before returning to Venice, was offered the position of confessor in the Cathedral of Milan, which he refused. His lectures to the Servites were so popular that he drew many lay students and men of business from the Rialto to hear them. Before he was 27, Sarabhi had sounded the depths of a very large number of diverse sciences, mathematics and anatomy, particularly fascinated him.

The University of Padua recognized his remarkable ability by conferring upon him the youngest man ever so honored, the degree of Doctor of Theology. He was at 26 the acknowledged head of the Science of Mathematics in Italy. AIIQ 175, Relative Coaching of Data .60 Thomas Wolsey, 1475-1530, an English Cardinal and Minister of State AIIQ 165, AIIQ 165

1. Family Standing Wolsey's father is reported to have been an honest poor man, and a man of good position, probably a grazier and wool merchant, with relatives who are also well-to-do. Of the paternal ancestry there is no further record, and no information has been found in regard to the mother of her forebears. 2. Developmental age 17 1. Interests, known record.

2. Education. No record has been preserved in Wolsey's first schooling, but of his latter progress it is written that he was so early sent to the University of Oxford that he took his bachelor's degree in arts there when he was 14 years old, at an age when few members now of the most forward capacity are known to be admitted. 3. School Standing and Progress Walsy's earliest scholarship was marked by quick and extraordinary proficiency for a possessed surprising capacity.

At Oxford, he soon got a name of peculiar distinction, and was commonly called the Boy Bachelor. Soon after he had taken his degree of Bachelor of Arts and made an extraordinary progress in logic and philosophy, He was elected fellow of Magdalen College in Oxford, and had not long been Master of Arts before the care of the school adjoining to that college was committed to him. See also 2-2. 4. Friends and Associates, no record.

5. Reading, no record. 6. Production Achievement, no record. 7. Evidences of Prococity. He very early discovered a docile and apt disposition for learning, which encouraged his parents to send him to school and to give him such an education as might prepare him for the university. AI IQ 165, Relief Coverage of Data 0.43

3. Development from 1726 C2-3 Whilst he continued his university career with sufficient success to win, at 27, an appointment as bursar of the college, He continued also in his position of Master of the Grammar School attached to the college, which he had held since his election as Fellow of Magdalene.

AII IQ 165, Relative Cultural Data 0.11. End of section 33.