“Denis Diderot, "Génie" in the Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers, ed. Alain Pons (Paris, 1963), pp. 321-29 passim. Translation by Benjamin Taylor in Into the Open: Reflections on Genius and Modernity (New York University Press, 1995), pp. 13-14”

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