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things hinge. What one means colors ideas and 

 purposes and acts. The personal equation en- 

 ters into all life problems. Thought and feel- 

 ing must incarnate. Something of the instinct 

 which sends the swallow out on her migrations, 

 draws the hero to his tasks. Haydn said of the 

 chorus of his "Creation," "It came not from me 

 but from above." The great leading geniuses 

 are interpreters of the soul's inner world. 

 What a magic power music exerts over the soul, 

 it seems to greet it as if an old acquaintance. Is 

 the soul ages old, has it come into this world 

 as an incarnation, or is the old Biblical idea the 

 right interpretation, "God made man in His 

 own image and likeness;" — then is man artist 

 because God is artist, musician because God is 

 a musician, philosophical because God is a phil- 

 osopher. Consciously, we are related to the 

 greatest and best and most gifted. The best 

 poetry and painting and music and oratory and 

 architecture of the ages appeals to us in such a 

 way that we instinctively say, "I could have 

 done that as well as he under his train-' 

 ing." Every struggling son of genius is our 

 brother, for there is nothing human foreign to 

 us. Visions and dreams we have, those 



