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RE: How Geniuses Spent Their Days
A few months ago there was a TIME LIFE special edition about the mystery of human genius on the newsstand. At least a couple of historians have posited that Abraham Lincoln was probably a genius. One online site has listed the IQ's of each American president since the beginning of the Republic, and Lincoln was in the top ten.
With only a handful of exceptions, our country has been led by men of quite formidable intellect.
I have no idea how one can ascertain the IQ of someone who lived so long ago, but Lincoln was obviously an unusually brilliant guy. I know he taught himself everything he knew including law, logic, mathematics, grammar and history. He is also the only president to have a patent. But a true genius?
What do you all think?
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