MAXWELL'S LAST LETTER 245 



just opposite the name of the saint another name which I did not recollect having 

 written. Here it is 



MA8 JA 



" Here then was the indication, impressed by the saint himself, of the way out 

 of all my troubles. But what could the symbol mean? I had heard that the harp 

 from which Heman or Ethan drew those modulations from the plaintive to the 

 triumphant which modern music with its fetters of tonality may ignore but can never 

 equal I had heard that this harp had been called by a name like this. But not in 

 all Wales could such a harp be found, nor yet the lordly music which has not been 

 able to come down through the illimitable years. 



" Here I was interrupted by a visitor from Dresden who had come all the way 

 with his Erkenntniss-Theorie under his arm, showing that space must have three 

 dimensions, and that there's not a villain living in all Denmark but he's an arrant 

 knave. Peruse his last epistle and see whether he could be transformed from a blower 

 of his own trumpet into a Nabladist. 



" I have been so seedy that I could not read anything however profound without 

 going to sleep over it. 



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