188 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



marvellous receiving Instrument, the ear, which, with 

 its sixty thousand parts, is busy speeding the message 

 along millions of tiny nerves to the central station, the 

 brain. There the soul of man interprets the language 

 of the bell. 



This second part of the story of the bell tells me 

 that the vibrating bell is a small link only In the end- 

 less chain of phenomena which connect the external 

 physical world to the internal world of our soul, 

 where the message of the bell is deciphered. The 

 more I study this second part of the story of the bell 

 the more I recognize to-day that my boyhood fancy 

 was right when on the pasturelands of my native vil- 

 lage it led me to imagine that the faint sound of the 

 distant village clock was a message from God. 



I never listen to the melodies of Krelsler's violin 

 without recalling to mind this message of nearly sixty 

 years ago. To me Krelsler's violin is a bell. The 

 smooth and silent movement of his bow communicates 

 to the strings a rapid succession of tiny pulses iden- 

 tical in action to the strokes of the clapper upon the 

 church bell. They are tiny but numerous clappers 

 which impart to the strings the energy of their life. 

 This life manifests itself In their melodious vibrations, 

 carrying a wonderful tale to our listening soul. The 

 tale Is identical with that which I mentioned in my 

 description of the language of the church bell. But 

 one essential difference must be mentioned. The 

 violin-maker, just like the maker of the church bell, 

 imparts to the bell, called the violin, its fundamental 

 character. The virtues of a Stradlvarlus are among 

 the glories of human ingenuity. But the temperament 

 and skill of a Kreisler superpose upon this funda- 



