12 HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ 



to which his future was to be consecrated, was launched into 

 a new life. Happily for himself, and to the great advantage of 

 the world of science, his education had not been one-sided. 

 By reason of his natural endowment, and thanks to the cease- 

 less efforts of his parents, whose intellectual standard was ever 

 set to high ideals, he was filled with passionate enthusiasm for 

 music and poetry, as well as for art and science. 



