The importance to the poet of having a large ratio of c to g was emphasized, although in other words ( !), by Schiller in a letter written in 1788, and quoted by Professor Freud 3.

Schiller wrote (to a friend who complained of his own lack of creativeness) : "The reason for your complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intelligence imposes upon your imagination.

" We may note in this connexion that the word genius is more commonly used to denote exceptional Cleverness than exceptional g.

Thus William James writes: Geniuses are, by common consent, considered to differ from ordinary minds by an unusual development of association by similarity.

And as the genius is to the vulgarian, so the vulgar human mind is to the intelligence of a brute 4.