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the poetry of ancient periods, the music must then ah-eady 
have been pervaded by great depth and richness of feeling. 
A magnificent piece of music surpasse.s even so far the 
most splendid of poems, as its sounds are the elocjuence of one. 
universal language. Among great operatic composers is one only, 
with whom word and sound emanated from the same mind and 
soul, and it is he also who never spent the sublimest of music on 
inadequate themes; it is he who, with Meyerbeer, in utmost impres- 
siveness gave to his musical effusions historic vividity, it is he who 
thus far knew to profit from the incomparable Avon-bard. 8o 
long as human suceptibilities exist for what is elevating, .so long 
will master-pieces of music, of poetry and indeed also of pictorial 
and plastic ai't be imperishable treasures, may they even have 
come to us from the time even of the Iliad. If we think of the 
names of the great masters, should then not also with some 
thankfulness be a remembrance for those, who drew men of high 
genius into their path or .srxstained them thereon? What would ha\ e 
been the fate of Beethoven in 1808, had it not been for the aid of the 
then Arch-Duke Rudolph, of Prince Lobkowitz and Count Kinski 
at that turbulent time % What would have become of Schiller at 
his protracted illness without the annuity spontaneously, in the 
most delicate of tenns, bestowed by the Danish Ci'own-Princeand 
Count KSchiimnelpfenning, and that at a period when national and 
private res<jurces were alike absorbed to a vast extent, because all 
Europe was in amis, not to speak of numerous other instances, 
when genius was in danger to be extinguished by worklly narrow- 
ness. The sunny sky of Austi'alia^seenis to kindle a general love 
for music, and has called forth many a talent already, some 
celebrating triumphs in the centres of European art, while a 
youth of this city carried off there among numerous competitors 
the Mozart-fellowship. But distinctions for this our great land 
have not only been earned in the glorious cause of music. 
Photolithography, if not altogether it did arise in Victoria, 
became universally adopted in the particular jirocess, elaborated 
here, and tirst explained before our Royal Society liy one of 
Liebig's disciples, who too early became alienated fi’oni this colon) . 
Theie also were first enunciated, however briefly, the views of the 
author of the Unseen Universe on the effects of rays, emanating 
from various substances ; and these early studies were followed 
up by a long series of appertaining researches at the great Home 
(Jlwervatory of Kew. Brennan’s torpedo is a Victorian achie\e- 
ment, recognised as highly important by the British GoA’ernment, 
and has pnjvefl lucrative to the constructor. 
It is about a hundred veal's ago when Galvani led the know- 
le<lge of electricity into new courses for unforebodetl vast influences 
thrimgh the technic world ; when Goethe conceived the tinst and 
far-reaching ideas of organic metamorphosis : when 8ii- James 
Smith establishetl the first society of ju.st pretensiveness for a 
