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ears into vibration, it is the means whereby 

 we apprehend it. Injure the organ and the 

 music is imperfect ; destroy it and it ceases 

 to be possible. But is it to be asserted on 

 the strength of that fact that the term 

 " music " has no significance apart from its 

 material manifestation ? Have the ideas of 

 Sir Edward Elgar no reality apart from their 

 record on paper and reproduction by an 

 orchestra ? It is true that without suitable 

 instruments and a suitable sense-organ we 

 should know nothing of music, but it cannot 

 be supposed that its underlying essence 

 would be therefore extinct or non-existent 

 and meaningless. Can there not be in the 

 universe a multitude of things which matter 

 as we know it is incompetent to express ? 

 Is it not the complaint of every genius that 

 his material is intractable, that it is difficult 

 to coerce matter as he knows it into the 

 service of mind as he is conscious of it, and 

 that his conceptions transcend his powers of 

 expression ? 



The connection between soul and body, or 



