Deals with intelligence hereditary through genetics in the famous people around that time divided by the groups of famous people and by their abilities such as English judges, Statesmen, people in literary circles, scientists, and athletes.

"This book covers the following topics related to genius: the nature of genius; the province and criterion of genius; to what faculty of mind genius belongs; how genius arrives from the imagination; the influence of judgment upon genius; ...

The author holds that the phrase originated from the practice of the victims about to be sacrificed to Sardan or Sandan of throwing themselves with joy and laughter upon the pyre.

Galton founded the science of Eugenics and coined the word in 1883. He investigated the families of great men and thought genius was hereditary.

Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920.