Cesare Lombroso
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"Cesare Lombroso", was an Italian criminology/criminologist, physician, and founder of the Italian school of criminology/Italian School of Positivist Criminology. Lombroso rejected the established classical school (criminology)/classical school, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature. Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy, early eugenics, psychiatry and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was Heredity/inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by Congenital disorder/physical (congenital) defects, which confirmed a criminal as wiktionary:savage/savage or Atavism/atavistic.

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The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.