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in time and space. In this connection, harmony, 

 equihbrium, balance, unity, are interchangeable 

 terms. The ceaseless rhythmic struggle and ''stream 

 of tendency" within us and all about us ceaselessly 

 makes for harmony. This rhythmic struggle and 

 its governing principle are manifested throughout 

 inorganic and organic nature in every movement and 

 every form or record of movement. Harmony 

 (equilibrium) is a fundamental principle of evolu- 

 tion. In fulfilment of this inner principle of " being 

 and becoming," all things pass through rhythmic 

 stages of progression and resolution, that is, rhythmic 

 stages of evolution. Life from moment to moment ' 

 is a rhythmic struggle for equilibrium. The works 

 of man are records of his physical, mental, moral 

 and spiritual struggle for equilibrium. In his music- 

 works man has recorded and will continue to record 

 the essence of his universal and spiritual experience 

 in his only universal and purely spiritual language, 

 music. The realm of music, the tone-realm, is an 

 evolutional product of the inner life or spirit; it 

 is the spiritual counterpart and image of the uni- 

 versal whole, of its perfect law and order in time and 

 space. Music is the concrete language of universal 

 harmony, law and order. Music-feeling is univer- 

 sal feeling, that is, the concrete feeling of universal 

 harmony, law and order. I emphasize concrete 

 because all that is music and music-feeling is con- 

 crete reality, a concrete and vivid inner experience, a 

 common experience in all of us. In music, rhythm 

 is form, relation, law and order in time; tone 

 (harmony of sound) is form, relation, law and order 



