of genius. Most of them are fairly hostile to genius or look at it
with a lorgnette.

I like to think that if the principles and habits of freedom that result
in genius were to be gauged and adjusted toward bringing out the genius
of ordinary men, they would result in the following:

Recipe to make a great man (or a live small one): Let him be made like a
great work of art. In general, follow the rule in Genesis i.

1. Chaos.

2. Enough Chaos; that is, enough kinds of Chaos. Pouring all the several
parts of Chaos upon the other parts of Chaos.

3. Watch to see what emerges and what it is in the Chaos that most
belongs to all the rest, what is the Unifying Principle.

4. Fertilise the Chaos. Let it be impregnated with desire, will,
purpose, personality.

5. When the Unifying Principle is discovered, refrain from trying to
force everything to attach itself to it. Let things attach themselves in
their way as they are sure to do in due time and grow upon it. Let the
mind be trusted. Let it not be always ordered around, thrust into, or
meddled with. The making of a man, like the making of a work of art,
consists in giving the nature of things a chance, keeping them open to
the sun and air and the springs of thought. The first person who ever
said to man, "You press the button and I will do the rest," was God.

The emphasis of art in our modern education, of the knack or science or
how of things, is to be followed next by the emphasis of the art that
conceals art, genius, the norm and climax of human ability. Any
finishing-school girl can out-sonnet Keats. The study of appearances,
the passion for the outside has run its course. The next thing in
education is going to be honesty, fearless naturalness, upheaval, the
freedom of self, self-expectancy, all-expectancy, and the passion for
possessing real things. The personalities, persons with genius, persons
with free-working, uncramped minds, are all there, ready and waiting,
both in teachers and pupils, all growing _sub rosa_, and the main thing
that is left to do is to lift the great roof of machinery off and let
them come up. The days are already upon us when education shall be taken
out of the hands of anaemic, abstracted men--men who go into everything
theory-end first. There is already a new atmosphere in the educated
world. The thing that shall be taught shall be the love of swinging out,
of swinging up to the light and the air. Let every man live, the world
say