Taste, and Genius
Taste is pleasure capacity; genius is power to accomplish an object.
Taste, in all probability from the Latin tactum and tango, "to touch," seems to designate the capacity to derive pleasure from an object. Genius designates the power we have for accomplishing any object. He who derives particular pleasure from music may be said to have a taste for music: he who makes very great proficiency in the theory and practice of music may be said to have a genius for it. It is obvious, therefore, that we may have a taste without having genius; but it would not be possible to have genius for a thing without having a taste for it; for nothing can so effectually give a taste for any accomplishment as the capacity to learn it, and the susceptibility of all its beauties; which circumstances are inseparable from genius. G. Crabb.