CHAPTER IX.
THE FLOWER OF THE FAMILY "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!" "Sure, He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused." -- SHAKESPEARE.
"The apostolic of every age are ever calling for a higher righteousness, a better development of the human race, a more earnest effort to equalize the condition of men."-- LUCRETIA MOTT.
"To every period its leaders: and the rise of every leader is according to his watching for opportunity; and the chief quality of leadership is the jewel of equity, by which alone the obedience of men is justified."-- ARAB SAYING.
"He presses on before the race, And sings out of a silent place.
Like faint notes of a forest bird On heights afar that voice is heard; And the dim path he breaks to-day Will some time be a trodden way.
But when the race comes toiling on That voice of wonder will be gone-- Be heard on higher peaks afar, Moved upward with the morning star.
O men of earth, that wandering voice Still goes the upward way: rejoice!" -- EDWIN MARKHAM.
=The Proportions of Genius to the Mediocre.=--In Dr.T.S.

Clouston's suggestive book, _The Hygiene of Mind_, he estimates that at least four-fifths of the human race are legally "sound" and of average capacity.

Of the remaining one-fifth who are "unusual" he and other investigators name only one-tenth of one per cent, as entitled to the distinction of "Genius." Clouston adds to this a class of "lesser genius," often extremely useful to the race but often personally unhappy from ungratified ambition or lack of temperamental balance.

He lists "reformers" for the most part in this class and "inventors who do not succeed." He also specifically indicates a class of "all-round talent" from which successful social and political leaders are drawn and heads of big business and administrators of large enterprises in educational fields.

Dr.Lester F.Ward, on the contrary, believed that we estimate the rate of genius and potential genius far too low and that special talent is vastly more common than the usual observer thinks.