Luxurious Ship

What is it hat a Beethoven, a Shakespear, a Leonardo da vinci has that ordinary mortals do not? hat is the mysterious quality /which lifts a certain individual Skyscraper-high above the rest of us? As long as ordinary people have looked at extraordinary ones, the question, "What is genius?" has fascinated and perplexed mankind. One reason the question is so perplexing is that we tend to lump together all sorts/ of people who have remarkable abilities, as if sheer virtuosity were the sign of genius. It is not, as witness the kind of ability displayed by so-called "idiot savants"- persons without formal education who can perform dizzying mental stunts. Zerah colburn, the son  of a 19th century vermont farmer, possessed nearly unbelievable powers of mental calculation. On one occasion when he was being examined by a body of scholars he was asked to raise the number eight to its sixteenth power. When he calculated the ansz`1wer in his head (281, 474, 976, 710, ...