THE FAMOUS DAREDEVIL WAS ACTUALLY QUITE ---BY TEMPERAMENT, AS ILLUS...

8. The famous daredevil was actually quite ---by temperament, as illustrated by the fact that hedid not --- until he was two years old.a.daring .. tussleb.arbitrary .. contradictc. careful .. perambulated.mendacious .. vocalizee. prosaic .. masticatePassage-Length Critical ReadingRead the passage below and the questions that follow it. As you form your answers, be sure to base them on whatis stated in the passage and introduction, or the inferences you can make from the material.This passage, written by John Fiske in the late 1800s, offers the author’s perspective on what he says are two kindsof genius.There are two contrasted kinds of genius, the poetical and the philosophical; or, to speak yet more generally,the artistic and the critical. The former is distinguished by a concrete, the latter by an abstract, imagination.The former sees things synthetically, in all their natural complexity; the latter pulls things to piecesLineanalytically and scrutinizes their relations. The former sees a tree in all its glory, where the latter sees anexogen with a pair of cotyledons. The former sees wholes, where the latter sees aggregates.(5)Corresponding with these two kinds of genius, there are two classes of artistic productions. Whenthe critical genius writes a poem or a novel, he constructs his plot and his characters in conformity to someprearranged theory, or with a view to illustrate some favorite doctrine. When he paints a picture, he firstthinks how certain persons would look under certain given circumstances, and paints them accordingly.When he writes a piece of music, he first decides that this phrase expresses joy, and that phrase disap-(10)pointment, and the other phrase disgust, and he composes accordingly. We therefore say ordinarily thathe does not create, but only constructs and combines. It is far different with the artistic genius, who, with-out stopping to think, sees the picture and hears the symphony with the eyes and ears of imagination, andpaints and plays merely what he has seen and heard. When Dante, in imagination, arrived at the lowestcircle of hell, where traitors like Judas and Brutus are punished, he came upon a terrible frozen lake, which,(15)he says, “Ever makes me shudder at the sight of frozen pools.” I have always considered this line a marveloushis shoulders. But, he looked at the rectangular block of Carrera marble, and beholding Moses grand and(25)lifelike within it, knocked away the environing stone, that others also might see the mighty figure. And soBeethoven, an artist of the same colossal order, wrote out for us those mysterious harmonies which his earhad for the first time heard; and which, in his mournful old age, it heard none the less plainly because ofits complete physical deafness. And in this way, Shakespeare wrote his Othello; spinning out no abstract(30)thoughts about jealousy and its fearful effects upon a proud and ardent nature, but revealing to us the liv-ing concrete man, as his imperial imagination had spontaneously fashioned him.