![]() But racial conditions are hardly to be offset on any terms that do not leave genius its freedom, and once in a while Nature herself rights things by producing a man whose transcendent merit compensates his nation for the very defects to which it has long been sensitive. If this were true, to equalize matters, we might perhaps barter without loss some score of ordinary American patentees for a single singer of Illyrian love-songs. A great Slav orator has publicly reproached his one hundred and twenty million fellows in Eastern Europe with their utter inability to invent even a mouse-trap. The vivid imagination and ready fancy of the people have been literary in their manifestation and fruit. ![]() History does not record, however, any similar instance in which the Servian language, though it be that of Boskovich, expounder of the atomic theory, has been studied for the sake of the scientific secrets that might lurk therein. Njan poetry has so distinct a charm that Goethe is said to have learned the musical tongue in which it is written rather than lose any of its native beauty. The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer My Later Endeavors: The Discovery of the Rotating Magnetic Field ![]() No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except for brief quotations for review purposes only. My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola TeslaĪll rights reserved. ![]()
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