The Creative Achievement of the Genius

If the genius succeeds in achieving his goals, nobody but himself pays the costs incurred. The creative accomplishment of the genius is an ultimate fact for praxeology. It comes to pass in history as a free gift of destiny. Men cannot improve the natural and social conditions which bring about the creator and his creation. Gerta was perhaps in some respects hampered by his functions at the court of weimar. But certainly he would not have accomplished more in his official duties if he had not written his plays, poems and novels.