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the wall ; and mural painting was developed into 

 another form of art. By means of a series of pictures 

 a story was told ; the picture-writing was converted 

 into hieroglyphics, and thence into a system of alpha- 

 betical signs. Thus the statue, the picture, and the 

 book are all descended from such figures as those which 

 savages scrawl with charcoal on their hut walls, and 

 which seldom bear much resemblance to the thing 

 portrayed. The genius of art and the genius of science 

 are developed by means of priesthoods and religion ; 

 but when a certain point has been attained, they 

 must be divorced from religion, or they will cease to 

 progress. 



And now, finally, with respect to music. There is 

 a science of music ; but music is not a science. Nor 

 is it an imitative art. It is a language. 



Words at first were rather sung than spoken, and 

 sentences were rhythmical. The conversation of the • 

 primeval men was conducted in verse and song : at a 

 later period they invented prose ; they used a method 

 of speech which was less pleasing to the ear, but 

 better suited for the communication of ideas. Poetry 

 and music ceased to be speech, and became an art, 

 as pantomime, which once was a part of speech, is now 

 an art exhibited upon the stage. Poetry and music 

 at first were one : the bard was a minstrel, the min- 

 strel was a bard. The same man was composer, 

 poet, vocalist, and instrumentalist, and instrument- 

 maker. He wrote the music and the air ; as he sang 

 he accompanied himself upon the harp, and he also 

 made the harp. When writing came into vogue the 

 arts of the poet and the musician were divided, and 

 music again was divided into the vocal and the instru- 

 mental, and finally instrument-making became a dis- 



