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thotights and moods. Just as in the rolling ocean, this move- 

 ment, 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 contending 

 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 God has allowed but few of his elect favourites to be the 

 heralds. 



But I have reached the confines of physical science, and 

 must close. 



