That native genius for realism animates every scene of Henry IV.
First, there's the native genius for this sport.
Between the native genius of the Scots and the pure pragmatic drive of the English we made a world beater.
Yet, despite years of trying, this native genius for appropriation has spectacularly failed in one area: hip-hop.
Once again, the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton — now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — displayed a native genius for putting on a good show.
He was a native genius, untaught, whose plays needed to be extensively rewritten to clear them of the impurities of their frequently vulgar style.
But by attaching juvenile books too closely to the theory and demands of pedagogy, it may have constricted a marked native genius.
Glasgow's native genius, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), designed the great four-level interior in beaten metal, stained glass, soaring tulip shapes, polished wood and cast iron.
They stayed for four years and began to sow seeds of artistic development in a country whose native genius was more culturally unformed than Nigeria.
It has a certain dignified repose, but the exterior and the floor plans give no hint of the native genius his admirers often attribute to him.
