If after this analysis we look back to the explanation given above of what is called _genius_, we find: _first_, that it is a talent for Art, not for Science, in which clearly known rules must go beforehand and determine the procedure. _Secondly_, as an artistic talent it presupposes a definite concept of the product, as the purpose, and therefore Understanding; but it also presupposes a representation (although an indeterminate one) of the material, _i.e._ of the intuition, for the presentment of this concept; and, therefore, a relation between the Imagination and the Understanding. _Thirdly_, it shows itself not so much in the accomplishment of the proposed purpose in a presentment of a definite _concept_, as in the enunciation or expression of _aesthetical Ideas_, which contain abundant material for that very design; and consequently it represents the Imagination as free from all guidance of rules and yet as purposive in reference to the presentment of the given concept. Finally, in the _fourth_ place, the unsought undesigned subjective purposiveness in the free accordance of the Imagination with the legality of the Understanding presupposes such a proportion and disposition of these faculties as no following of rules, whether of science or of mechanical imitation, can bring about, but which only the nature of the subject can produce. In accordance with these suppositions genius is the exemplary originality of the natural gifts of a subject in the _free_ employment of his cognitive faculties. In this way the product of a genius (as regards what is to be ascribed to genius and not to possible learning or schooling) is an example, not to be imitated (for then that which in it is genius and constitutes the spirit of the work would be lost), but to be followed, by another genius; whom it awakens to a feeling of his own originality and whom it stirs so to exercise his art in freedom from the constraint of rules, that thereby a new rule is gained for art, and thus his talent shows itself to be exemplary. But because a genius is a favourite of nature and must be regarded by us as a rare phenomenon, his example produces for other good heads a school, _i.e._ a methodical system of teaching according to rules, so far as these can be derived from the peculiarities of the products of his spirit. For such persons beautiful art is so far imitation, to which nature through the medium of a genius supplied the rule.