Let’s Reconsider This Idea Of “Genius”

The term “genius” in its modern sense was first adopted in the eighteenth century and it involved a conflation of two Latin terms: genius, which for the Romans was the god of our conception, imbuing us with particular personality traits but nevertheless a supernatural force external to us, and ingenium, a related noun referring to our internal dispositions and talents, our inborn nature.

source ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/2014/09/lets-reconsider-this-idea-of-genius.html

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