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emotion, an inseparable concomitant of tone-rhythmic 

 feeling, namely, the innate desire to shape and ex- 

 press with no other end and aim than the pleasure of 

 gratifying that desire. This impelling desire of the 

 inner life or human spirit to give form to its moods 

 and tenses for pure joy and love of expression is the 

 creative impulse to which all the arts owe their rise 

 and development. Goethe's dictum "art is but 

 form" is comprehensive, since form in art is the 

 direct product of the human spirit and is not separa- 

 ble from the idea which it embodies. Equilibrium or 

 harmony is the shaping principle of all form of mo- 

 tion, of all physical /orm of expression, of all spiritual 

 form of expression. We are here confronted by a 

 world-principle, a principle inherent in the physical 

 and psychical forces, a principle governing all animate 

 and inanimate form of cosmic expression. This uni- 

 versal principle of harmony and the principle of har- 

 mony in music are one and the same. This princi- 

 ple is the ejSicient cause of the genesis in feeling of the 

 original forms of harmony, the evolutional anteced- 

 ents of chords. 



6. World-Energy 



World-energy is manifested in motion. Its mani- 

 festations may be summarily divided as follows: 

 First, motion in process. Second, record of previous 

 motion or process. The first includes all sensible 

 motion within and about us. The second includes 

 all the forms or works of nature and all the works of 

 man. All motion is accentual, wherefore all process 

 and record of motion are accentual. 



