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was axactly like insanity. He had no trace | †of eminence in his ancestry, and "ble tone- perement and genius are probably a good illustrados of a pontaneous variation.
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Many persone desaribed as possessing, genius la certain lines are predisposed to
Byron's mother was unbalanced and his status of extremne Iritability, and suffer from emotional listurbators resulting in maternal grandfather suffered from melan- norvo storms or outbursts of motor vielupes cholin and committed suicide. Another which can only be described as submete celative dommitted suicide with poison. Lanania, plus
Byron apcceeded his grand uncle, the Into what class cther than the nervousmad and wicked" Lord Byron," or the neurotie aru wo to exter-such 'per-fatdos, thamad Jack Byron," died, frans sana Io this analysie we are bound to suicide while insane. Byron's father ran give much consideration to the
aration to the maxim that away with the Misrchioness of Carmarthen, -- **ikd-begets-like." ·Shakespeare, the an heiress whom he married and killed by COAL DEPARTMENT. greatest postic genias the world has aver cruelty, and trusted his second wife, Mias
sven, stands alone. He appears to have Gordon, the same." had go family history of ability, and little SOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA. prsonally known ofhim.
SIMA, OCHI, HUTABE, YO- The genealogy of the poet" Cowper will SHINOTANI, HOJO, KANADA,illustrate the point, says the Lancet. NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW There was mental aneoudness on both sides of his ancestor, who were also dis and KAMIYAMADA Golleriam.;
tinguished, as he was the grandson of a Justice and the grea:nophew of a Bord
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converging heredity of this kind in the ancestor fills our asylume Byran correctly described by his mont "too mad," "bad and Intimate friends as dangerous to know." His daughter Ads married Lord Lovelies, and her son, the Viscount Ookbam, served as a cominen summan and worked at Millwall as a ship's carpenter. Byron was tortured by hallu He suffered from roligious hallacia-tionseinations; be drank, and died an opileptis and had the strengest suicidal tendency," at Su having to be cared for in an asylum 'for a period of over a year, yet he wrote, "Joba Gilpin" when suffering from intens melancholia.
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Milton was gouty and lost his sight from inherited, blindno He was mid to be most tyrannical in his home life, and is stated to have lod his daughtere a miserable. time, causing them of selling their father's works and chesting. He had four children,
Shelley had an Insans antestry; his grandfather suffered from melancholia and WAS miser, bat woalthy. His father bowed similar tenderdies. His mother who is said to have died in infancy was violent and domincering, but of lovely from al usage, one daughter who was blind, and solitary habita. At Eton bon called another a cripple and a third one died Udaw?—41. A BO 5th Ed., Western Union."Mad Shelley," and the day before he was later. His own brother was described as a drowned at Spezzi, at the age of 30, he disrepatable judga" and in the collaterals A vivid hallucinations. In his picture many ne'er do wells, his eyes are large and animated and wild, And bis voice we said to be high, weak and discordant, and he was described as shy, litars, Antisocial, and the subject of
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Charles and Mary Lamb had a convergent heredity of nervous instability and nervous disones. Their father died from dementis and parslysin at 50, and Charles died at et from what he himself described as the cursed drinking." He was only 5 feet in height, he stammered, and always suffered from-beadaches. At the age of 20 he und to be placed in an asylum, while his sister Mary stabbed her mother to the heart 816 while insane.
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