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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1XIX. — The One Perfect Thing
3IT was once stated by a very wise and learned man: "There are only three perfect things in the world, —the bow and arrow, the boomerang, and the violin"; only three things, the wise man proceeded to explain, upon which no improvement could be made, and for which no further stage of progressive development would be possible. He contended — this wise man — that, among all the mechanical contrivances of the world, all the artistic creations and utilitarian inventions, all the flower and fruit of ages of research and evolution, these three things alone had reached their completed form, and could not, by any twist of scientist's or artisan's brains, by any effort after ingenious betterment, be pushed one inch farther on the pathway of evolution.
5Now to this wise man there came yet another wise man, who pointed out that the bow and arrow was not a perfect thing, since it could be made to-day in steel, or other flexible metals, and gain threefold in power and efficacy.
7"That is true," said the first wise man, "but though you may alter the materials, the form
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