n THE NATURE OF MUSIC 



7. World-Rhythm. Universal Form 



World-motion is accentuated motion, in one word, 

 is rhythm. Rhythm is form not law of motion. Let 

 us not confound form, which is rhythm, with the 

 principle or cause of form, which is inherent in 

 and proceeds from energy itself. World-energy is 

 manifested in world-rhythm. Hence this principle. 

 Rhythm is the universal form of expression. At bot- 

 tom, the terms expression, manifestation, language, 

 are synonymous. Not man alone speaks. All things 

 speak, each in its own peculiar language, but all in 

 common rhythmic accents in time and space. Vibra- 

 tion, pulsation, undulation, are so many names for 

 accentuated motion, that is, for regularly recurring 

 periods of rhythm. 



8. World-Harmony. Universal Principle of Form 

 and Relation 



World-rhythm everywhere makes for world-har- 

 mony, world-equilibrium. World-energy persists in 

 its, perpetual rhythmic struggle for the maintenance 

 of world-harmony, world-equilibrium. Hence this 

 all-pervading, all-shaping, all-governing principle. 

 Harmony (equilibrium) is the universal principle of 

 form and relation in time and space. The universe 

 is one rhythm proceeding from one energy and 

 maintaining one equilibrium to which the rhythm 

 and equilibrium of all its parts from greatest to 

 smallest are relative. Hence the harmony and 

 unity of the universal whole, the interdependence and 

 interrelation of all things, the reign of law and order 



