"Geniuses are commonly believed to
excel other men in their power of sustained attention. In most of them, it is to be feared, the
so-called 'power' is of the passive sort. Their ideas coruscate, every subject branches infinitely
before their fertile minds, and so for hours they may be rapt. But it is their genius making them
attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them. And, when we come down to the root of
the matter, we see that they differ from ordinary men less in the character of their attention than
in the nature of the objects upon which it is successively bestowed."
The Principles of Psychology
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