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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1The Heart of Music
3the very rocks and heavens must have grown weary of hearing.
5And from that crude and remote parentage,—crude and remote even as our own prehistoric parentage, rooted far back there when the earth was yet in the making,—the shrine was fashioned for the Heart of Music. And thus it entered; and it travelled and sang down the ages. For then and there the violin was born, as we were born in the first man thing that crawled to life from the darkness of primordial confusion and spoke and walked upright, looking on the sun.
7Robert Barr, in writing of a bowman of old, makes him exclaim, as he twangs his weapon melodiously: "There, my lord, is a one-stringed harp, which sings of sudden death and nothing else!"
9The thought that all things are first created in embryo is no longer new to us. We can understand the principle of seed, and germ, and protoplasm,—the first pin point of life, the nucleus of all creation in a space too small for the naked eye to see. So the rudimentary forms of all things are of interest to us, and our philologists trace laboriously the origin of words, as our geologists wrest the secrets of the earth's creation from sand and stones. We are in an age that
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