Divine Fury (70 page)

artists and God,
89
,
219

Hitler as artist,
209–210
,
218
,
219–229
,
221

portrait painters,
152

super-artists as “divine,”
62

Arthur D. Little, Inc.,
236

Artisans,
2–3
,
11
,
63

Aryans,
213
,
216
,
226

Asclepius,
47

Astrology,
22–23
,
27
,
48
,
51
,
54–55
,
61

Atheism,
80
,
88
,
125
,
126
,
128
,
161

Atomic bomb,
xii
,
226–227

Augustine (Saint),
35
,
38
,
40
,
41
,
46
,
53

Augustus Caesar,
xvi
,
21
,
28–31
,
107
,
117
,
120
,
216
.
See also
Octavian

Australian aboriginals,
173

Austria,
192
,
198
,
199
,
222

Axial age,
3

Bach, Johann Sebastian,
94

Balzac, Honoré de,
144

Barrington, Daines,
93

Barthes, Roland,
231

Basilica Ambrosiana,
35
,
36

Baudelaire, Charles,
140
,
163
,
164

Bautain, Louis (abbé),
189

Bazhenov, Nikolai,
201

Beethoven, Ludwig von,
115
,
116–117
,
138
,
140
,
166
,
191
,
197
,
198
,
216

IQ of,
184

skull of,
158

Bell curve,
174

Bell Labs,
236

Ben-Gurion, David,
235

Berdyaev, Nikolai,
203

Bible,
4–5
,
38
,
40
,
41
,
42
,
45
,
47
,
48
,
60
,
127
,
131

Binet, Alfred,
152
,
178–179
,
180
,
181
,
183

Birth, issues concerning,
15
,
16
,
17
,
19
,
20
,
22
,
27
,
28
,
36
,
37
,
56
,
57
,
64
,
75
,
81
,
83
,
96
,
118
,
138
,
174
,
176
,
181
.
See also
Heredity

Blake, William,
127
,
130–131
,
132
,
133

Blavatsky, Helena,
185–187
,
188

Bloom, Harold,
xiv

Boileau, Nicolas,
85–86
,
87

Bonaventure (Saint),
42
,
45–46

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich,
218

Boyle, Robert,
98

Brains,
56
,
57
,
85
,
107
,
125
,
126
,
154
,
156
,
157
,
159
,
160
,
165
,
166
,
169
,
172
,
188
,
199
,
201–202
,
204
,
205–206
,
217

collections of,
161
,
207

glial cells,
230

localized brain function,
155

size/weight of,
161–162
,
163–164
,
173
,
182

Brentano, Franz,
157

Broca, Paul,
160–161
,
179
,
185
,
187
,
229

Brunelleschi, Filippo,
62

Bruno, Giordano,
50

Brutus,
24
,
51

Buddhism,
1
,
38
,
185

Bulwer Lytton, Edward,
210

Burns, Robert,
138

Byron, George Gordon (Lord),
115
,
124–125
,
126
,
135
,
138–139
,
140
,
144
,
146
,
147
,
149
,
169

Caligula,
30

Calvin, John,
60

Candolle, Alphonse de,
176

Capitalism,
72
,
73
,
171
,
236

Cardano, Girolamo,
51

Carlyle, Thomas,
134
,
138
,
139
,
148
,
193
,
197
,
204

Catholic Church,
155
,
189
,
192

Cato,
111
,
112

Cattell, James McKeen,
177
,
184

Celebrity,
xii
,
xxii
,
100–101
,
121
,
125
,
138
,
139
,
158
,
224
,
226

heads of celebrated men,
156
,
157

See also
Fame
;
under
Genius

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart,
191
,
197
,
210
,
211
,
212
,
214
,
216

Chamfort, Nicolas,
101
,
108

Charisma,
26
,
28
,
30
,
114
,
121–122
,
168

Charlemagne,
117
,
120
,
122

Chateaubriand, François-René de,
143

Chénier, Marie-Joseph,
109–110

China,
1
,
26
,
232
,
235

Christianity,
33–66
,
91
,
108
,
112
,
131
,
147
,
148
,
187
,
189
,
190
,
203
,
218

attitudes toward
genius/genii
,
33–34
,
36–37
,
41
,
43–46
,
49
,
51
,
70

founding “great doctors” of,
41

and pagan inheritance,
34
,
40
,
42
,
43
,
44

Cicero,
7
,
9
,
23
,
26
,
78
,
148