Quote:In Ancient Rome, the genius was the guiding or "tutelary" spirit of a person, or even of an entire gens, the plural of which was 'genii'.
Quote:In ancient Rome, a gens (pronounced /ˈɡɛns/ or /ˈdʒɛnz/), plural gentes, referred to a family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps (plural stirpes). The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italy during the period of the Roman Republic. Much of an individual's social standing depended on the gens to which he belonged. Certain gentes were considered patrician, others plebeian, while some had both patrician and plebeian branches. The importance of membership in a gens declined considerably in imperial times.
Quote:In the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, a genius is someone in whom intellect predominates over "will" much more than within the average person.
Right then. Regarding the "arts" lobby in S.E. England, which seems so far to be escaping the deficit reduction cuts, is there anyone here who thinks that the "gens" (or genius) of that rampant lobby has an intellect predominating over its will? If not, and will predominates over intellect, as I think, then there cannot be a single genius in its whole bag of tricks assertions to the contrary notwithstanding.
I did use the word ironically you know. I was trying to get Queenie to thrum with indignation. I find women in that state quite sexy.
