So if the general position be true that he is a variation of some kind, we must look elsewhere for the direction of those peculiar traits whose excess would be his condemnation.

This we can find only in connection with the other demand that we make of the ordinary man--the demand that he be a man of good judgment.

And to this we may now turn.
_The Judgment of the Genius._--We should bear in mind in approaching this topic the result which follows from the reciprocal character of social relationships.

No genius ever escapes the requirements laid down for his learning, his social heredity.

Mentally he is a social outcome, as well as are the fellows who sit in judgment on him.