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will be pleasant. The ordered originating cause and the 

 conveying medium work unto perfection. They respond 

 to the highest skill. They satisfy the finest ear. There 

 are those that have a genius for music, that have per- 

 ceptive power of exquisite sensibility. They may often 

 be pained by performers, and discover noises in their 

 work, but they never dream of blaming nature's ele- 

 ments. They know that they respond to their own 

 finest work, and fail them never. 



We have spoken of particles because sound motions 

 are borne forward, not strictly by the molecules and 

 atoms ; but in the last resort their properties determine 

 all, for were they not ordered the particles could do 

 nothing. 



