¶ Talent (1)
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Talent:
"…In the talented individual there is relatively no tug-of-war for dominance on the part of the life cells, for talent has been found to be born of two parents of almost similar life cell characteristics. This talent in human beings is similar to a specific trait on which, and for which, breeders of horses or dogs continually concentrate and inbreed; for instance, ‘speed’ in the horse, a special head in the dog, which requires parenthood as closely identical as possible. The product, ‘colt,’ may be said to have a talent for speed. The word talent as applied to persons is derived from talentum, the name for a coin of varying value, or a measure of money. Its application to persons was intended to indicate, in a rate sense, persons of a special measure, not persons of a generally inclusive, average rate ability of performance.
“In contrast to genius, talent has not the two or more viewpoints of genius, but has a ‘single track’ visualization. The absence of a time-and-space measuring ability limits the sight to a single nonworldly view-- ‘non-worldly’ because, as we pointed out in our interpretation of Einstein’s formula, the conscious ‘world’ is in fact energy radiantly manifest”
