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taste, smell, ^sex)must be made to vibrate like the dull strings 

 of bass-viols, to thrill like woody tubes of hautboys, to pierce 

 like shrill yet mellow accents of the clarionet, to stir the 

 soul like the tumultuous voices of brass instruments. Sight 

 and hearing, through their keener intellectual significance, 

 dominate this harmony ; even as treble and tenor chords of 

 violin and viola control a symphony. The final object of the 

 whole concert is to delight and stimulate the mind, not to 

 exercise the brain by logical propositions, nor to excite the 

 appetite by indecent imagery. Precisely in this attunement 

 of all the senses to the service of impassioned thought lies the 

 secret of the noblest art. 



