This is Volume XI of twenty-one of collection of works on Individual Differences. Initially published in 1931, it offers a look at the psychology of genius and is created from the careful examination of a very comprehensive primary source of material in the form of artistic works, but more especially of letters, diaries, memoirs and the original reports of contemporaries. This book is concerned entirely with the personality of genius, the laws governing its biological origin and the psychology of its inner instinctive structure.

Authored by Kretschmer, Ernst,

Part one LAWS; Chapter One The Inner Voice; chaptersecond Instinct and Intellect; chapterthird The chief forms underlying personality differences; Chapter Fourth The breeding of talent; Chapter Five Genius and Race; Part two PATTERNS; Chapter Sixth Spiritual Periodicity; Chapter Seventh Sex and Puberty; Chapter Eighth The Scientist; chapterninth Heroes and Leaders; Chapter Tenth Inspired Characters and Mankind's Veneration; Chapter Eleventh The Prophet; partthere Portrait Collection; Chapter 12 Preliminary Remarks on the Illustrations; Chapter 13 Philosophers; Chapter 14 Sources of the Portrait Collection;