106 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSES OF HAEMONY. 



streaming thoughts and moods. Just as in the rolling 

 ocean, this movement, rhythmically repeated, and yet 

 ever varying, rivets our attention and hurries us along. 

 But whereas in the sea, blind physical forces alone are at 

 work, and hence the final impression on the spectator's 

 mind is nothing but solitude in a musical work of art 

 the movement follows the outflow of the artist's own 

 emotions. Now gently gliding, now gracefully leaping, 

 now violently stirred, penetrated or laboriously contend- 

 ing with the natural expression of passion, the stream of 

 sound, in primitive vivacity, bears over into the hearer's 

 soul unimagined moods which the artist has overheard 

 from his own, and finally raises him up to that repose of 

 everlasting beauty, of which Grod has allowed but few of 

 his elect favourites to be the heralds. 



But I have reached the confines of physical science* 

 and must close. 



