CHAPTER V.
Youth of genius .-- Its first impulses may be illustrated by its subsequent actions .-- Parents have another association of the man of genius than we .-- Of genius, its first habits .-- Its melancholy.
-- Its reveries .-- Its love of solitude .-- Its disposition to repose.
-- Of a youth distinguished by his equals .-- Feebleness of its first attempts .-- Of genius not discoverable even in manhood .-- The education of the youth may not be that of his genius .-- An unsettled impulse, querulous till it finds its true occupation .-- With some, curiosity as intense a faculty as invention .-- What the youth first applies to is commonly his delight afterwards .-- Facts of the decisive character of genius.

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