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it, from the lip of the living teacher, it has become the 



of a life of research. 



No 'taut 'ha* done man than llelmholtz to open up paths of communication 

 i^^ departments of human knowledge; and one of these, lying in 

 attract! region than that of elementary psychology, might be explored 



udlv favourable conditions, by some of the fresh minds now 

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coming op to Cambridge. 



Helmholu, by a aeries of daring strides, has effected a passage for himself 

 orer that untrodden wild between acoustics and music that Serbonian bog 

 whole armies of scientific musicians and musical men of science have 

 without filling it up. 

 We mar not be able even yet to plant our feet in his tracts and follow 

 him right across. That would require the seven league boots of the German 

 ooloMUs; but to help us in Cambridge we have the Board of Musical Studies, 

 vindicating for music its ancient place in a liberal education. On the physical 

 we have Lord Bayleigh laying the foundation deep and strong in his 

 of Sound, On the aesthetic side we have the University Musical 

 Society doing the practical work, and in the space between, those conferences 

 of Mr Sedley Taylor, where the wail of the siren draws musician and mathematician 

 together down into the depths of their sensational being, and where the gorgeous 

 hoot of the phoneidoecope are seen to seethe and twine and coil like the 



"Dragon boughs and elvish emblemings" 



on the gates of that city where 



"an ye heard a music, like enow 

 They are building still, seeing the city is built 

 To music, therefore never built at all, 

 And therefore built for ever." 



The special educational value of this combined study of music and acoustics 

 w that more than almost any other study it involves a continual appeal to 

 what we must observe for ourselves. 



The facts are things which must be felt; they cannot be learned from any 

 description of them. 



All this has been said more than two hundred years ago by one of our 

 own prophets Wdliam Harvey, of Gonville and Caius College. "For whosoever 

 they be that read authors, and do not by the aid of their own senses, abstract 



