CHAPTER XI.
The meditations of Genius .-- A work on the Art of Meditation not yet produced .-- Predisposing the mind .-- Imagination awakens imagination.
-- Generating feelings by music .-- Slight habits .-- Darkness and silence, by suspending the exercise of our senses, increase the vivacity of our conceptions .-- The arts of memory .-- Memory the foundation of genius .-- Inventions by several to preserve their own moral and literary character .-- And to assist their studies .-- The meditations of genius depend on habit .-- Of the night-time .-- A day of meditation should precede a day of composition .-- Works of magnitude from slight conceptions .-- Of thoughts never written .-- The art of meditation exercised at all hours and places .-- Continuity of attention the source of philosophical discoveries.

--Stillness of meditation the first state of existence in genius.

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