+const int MyAutoTimedScrollingWindow::sm_lineCnt = 125;
+const int MyAutoTimedScrollingWindow::sm_lineLen = 79;
+const wxChar* MyAutoTimedScrollingWindow::sm_testData =
+_T("162 Cult of the genius out of vanity. Because we think well of ourselves, but ")
+_T("nonetheless never suppose ourselves capable of producing a painting like one of ")
+_T("Raphael's or a dramatic scene like one of Shakespeare's, we convince ourselves ")
+_T("that the capacity to do so is quite extraordinarily marvelous, a wholly ")
+_T("uncommon accident, or, if we are still religiously inclined, a mercy from on ")
+_T("high. Thus our vanity, our self-love, promotes the cult of the genius: for only ")
+_T("if we think of him as being very remote from us, as a miraculum, does he not ")
+_T("aggrieve us (even Goethe, who was without envy, called Shakespeare his star of ")
+_T("the most distant heights [\"William! Stern der schonsten Ferne\": from Goethe's, ")
+_T("\"Between Two Worlds\"]; in regard to which one might recall the lines: \"the ")
+_T("stars, these we do not desire\" [from Goethe's, \"Comfort in Tears\"]). But, aside ")
+_T("from these suggestions of our vanity, the activity of the genius seems in no ")
+_T("way fundamentally different from the activity of the inventor of machines, the ")
+_T("scholar of astronomy or history, the master of tactics. All these activities ")
+_T("are explicable if one pictures to oneself people whose thinking is active in ")
+_T("one direction, who employ everything as material, who always zealously observe ")
+_T("their own inner life and that of others, who perceive everywhere models and ")
+_T("incentives, who never tire of combining together the means available to them. ")
+_T("Genius too does nothing except learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, ")
+_T("except continually seek for material and continually form itself around it. ")
+_T("Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: ")
+_T("but none is a \"miracle.\" Whence, then, the belief that genius exists only in ")
+_T("the artist, orator and philosopher? that only they have \"intuition\"? (Whereby ")
+_T("they are supposed to possess a kind of miraculous eyeglass with which they can ")
+_T("see directly into \"the essence of the thing\"!) It is clear that people speak of ")
+_T("genius only where the effects of the great intellect are most pleasant to them ")
+_T("and where they have no desire to feel envious. To call someone \"divine\" means: ")
+_T("\"here there is no need for us to compete.\" Then, everything finished and ")
+_T("complete is regarded with admiration, everything still becoming is undervalued. ")
+_T("But no one can see in the work of the artist how it has become; that is its ")
+_T("advantage, for wherever one can see the act of becoming one grows somewhat ")
+_T("cool. The finished and perfect art of representation repulses all thinking as ")
+_T("to how it has become; it tyrannizes as present completeness and perfection. ")
+_T("That is why the masters of the art of representation count above all as gifted ")
+_T("with genius and why men of science do not. In reality, this evaluation of the ")
+_T("former and undervaluation of the latter is only a piece of childishness in the ")
+_T("realm of reason. ")
+_T("\n\n")
+_T("163 The serious workman. Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can ")
+_T("name great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. The acquired ")
+_T("greatness, became \"geniuses\" (as we put it), through qualities the lack of ")
+_T("which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that ")
+_T("seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts ")
+_T("properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves ")
+_T("time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary ")
+_T("things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole. the recipe for becoming a ")
+_T("good novelist, for example, is easy to give, but to carry it out presupposes ")
+_T("qualities one is accustomed to overlook when one says \"I do not have enough ")
+_T("talent.\" One has only to make a hundred or so sketches for novels, none longer ")
+_T("than two pages but of such distinctness that every word in them is necessary; ")
+_T("one should write down anecdotes each day until one has learned how to give them ")
+_T("the most pregnant and effective form; one should be tireless in collecting and ")
+_T("describing human types and characters; one should above all relate things to ")
+_T("others and listen to others relate, keeping one's eyes and ears open for the ")
+_T("effect produced on those present, one should travel like a landscape painter or ")
+_T("costume designer; one should excerpt for oneself out of the individual sciences ")
+_T("everything that will produce an artistic effect when it is well described, one ")
+_T("should, finally, reflect on the motives of human actions, disdain no signpost ")
+_T("to instruction about them and be a collector of these things by day and night. ")
+_T("One should continue in this many-sided exercise some ten years: what is then ")
+_T("created in the workshop, however, will be fit to go out into the world. What, ")
+_T("however, do most people do? They begin, not with the parts, but with the whole. ")
+_T("Perhaps they chance to strike a right note, excite attention and from then on ")
+_T("strike worse and worse notes, for good, natural reasons. Sometimes, when the ")
+_T("character and intellect needed to formulate such a life-plan are lacking, fate ")
+_T("and need take their place and lead the future master step by step through all ")
+_T("the stipulations of his trade. ")
+_T("\n\n")
+_T("164 Peril and profit in the cult of the genius. The belief in great, superior, ")
+_T("fruitful spirits is not necessarily, yet nonetheless is very frequently ")
+_T("associated with that religious or semi-religious superstition that these ")
+_T("spirits are of supra-human origin and possess certain miraculous abilities by ")
+_T("virtue of which they acquire their knowledge by quite other means than the rest ")
+_T("of mankind. One ascribes to them, it seems, a direct view of the nature of the ")
+_T("world, as it were a hole in the cloak of appearance, and believes that, by ")
+_T("virtue of this miraculous seer's vision, they are able to communicate something ")
+_T("conclusive and decisive about man and the world without the toil and ")
+_T("rigorousness required by science. As long as there continue to be those who ")
+_T("believe in the miraculous in the domain of knowledge one can perhaps concede ")
+_T("that these people themselves derive some benefit from their belief, inasmuch as ")
+_T("through their unconditional subjection to the great spirits they create for ")
+_T("their own spirit during its time of development the finest form of discipline ")
+_T("and schooling. On the other hand, it is at least questionable whether the ")
+_T("superstitious belief in genius, in its privileges and special abilities, is of ")
+_T("benefit to the genius himself if it takes root in him. It is in any event a ")
+_T("dangerous sign when a man is assailed by awe of himself, whether it be the ")
+_T("celebrated Caesar's awe of Caesar or the awe of one's own genius now under ")
+_T("consideration; when the sacrificial incense which is properly rendered only to ")
+_T("a god penetrates the brain of the genius, so that his head begins to swim and ")
+_T("he comes to regard himself as something supra-human. The consequences that ")
+_T("slowly result are: the feeling of irresponsibility, of exceptional rights, the ")
+_T("belief that he confers a favor by his mere presence, insane rage when anyone ")
+_T("attempts even to compare him with others, let alone to rate him beneath them, ")
+_T("or to draw attention to lapses in his work. Because he ceases to practice ")
+_T("criticism of himself, at last one pinion after the other falls out of his ")
+_T("plumage: that superstitious eats at the roots of his powers and perhaps even ")
+_T("turns him into a hypocrite after his powers have fled from him. For the great ")
+_T("spirits themselves it is therefore probably more beneficial if they acquire an ")
+_T("insight into the nature and origin of their powers, if they grasp, that is to ")
+_T("say, what purely human qualities have come together in them and what fortunate ")
+_T("circumstances attended them: in the first place undiminished energy, resolute ")
+_T("application to individual goals, great personal courage, then the good fortune ")
+_T("to receive an upbringing which offered in the early years the finest teachers, ")
+_T("models and methods. To be sure, when their goal is the production of the ")
+_T("greatest possible effect, unclarity with regard to oneself and that ")
+_T("semi-insanity superadded to it has always achieved much; for what has been ")
+_T("admired and envied at all times has been that power in them by virtue of which ")
+_T("they render men will-less and sweep them away into the delusion that the ")
+_T("leaders they are following are supra-natural. Indeed, it elevates and inspires ")
+_T("men to believe that someone is in possession of supra-natural powers: to this ")
+_T("extent Plato was right to say [Plato: Phaedrus, 244a] that madness has brought ")
+_T("the greatest of blessings upon mankind. In rare individual cases this portion ")
+_T("of madness may, indeed, actually have been the means by which such a nature, ")
+_T("excessive in all directions, was held firmly together: in the life of ")
+_T("individuals, too, illusions that are in themselves poisons often play the role ")
+_T("of healers; yet, in the end, in the case of every \"genius\" who believes in his ")
+_T("own divinity the poison shows itself to the same degree as his \"genius\" grows ")
+_T("old: one may recall, for example, the case of Napoleon, whose nature certainly ")
+_T("grew into the mighty unity that sets him apart from all men of modern times ")
+_T("precisely through his belief in himself and his star and through the contempt ")
+_T("for men that flowed from it; until in the end, however, this same belief went ")
+_T("over into an almost insane fatalism, robbed him of his acuteness and swiftness ")
+_T("of perception, and became the cause of his destruction.");
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