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The mountain pinnacles slumber; valleys, crags and caves are silent.

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Watson, Dr. Percival, Spallanzani, and especiall the Bishop of Landaff. — See "Chemical Essays," vol v.

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I will bring fire to thee

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The "Hortulus Animae cum Oratiunculis Aliquibus Superadditis" of Grünninger

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Rousseau — Nouvelle Heloise

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See Archimedes, "De Incidentibus in Fluido." — lib. 2.

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It will be hard to discover a better (method of education) than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered; and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body and music for the soul." — Repub. lib. 2. "For this reason is a musical education most essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strangest hold upon it, filling it with beauty and making the man beautiful-minded… He will praise and admire the beautiful; will receive it with joy into his soul, will feed upon it, and assimilate his own condition with it." Ibid. lib. 3. Music (μουσικη) had, among the Athenians, a far more comprehensive signification than with us. It included not only the harmonies of time and of tune, but the poetic diction, sentiment and creation each in its widest sense. The study of music was with them in fact, the general cultivation of the taste — of that which recognizes the beautiful — in contra-distinction from reason, which deals only with the true.
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