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Scan 308
The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1921
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1would remain the same. The shape, operation, and principle of the bow and arrow are perfect, so my point stays unchanged."
3Nevertheless, since so warm a controversy arose from this, we will follow the legal fashion of refusing evidence that is not "proved beyond the possibility of a reasonable doubt" and discard the bow and arrow from our perfect trio. Remains to us the boomerang and the violin.
5Now the boomerang, as a perfect scientific, mechanical, and utilitarian demonstration of extraordinary natural phenomenon, — which is one way of saying natural law, — is unexceptionable and incomparable. But to our mind, though we advance the theory in all humbleness, perfection implies more than mere practical completeness, means something better than the successful exposition of some principle of gravity, or air-resistance, or other scientific force. It seems, to us, to demand some element of beauty, some breath of the spirit as well as the head, something that the artist as well as the artisan can acclaim as "perfect." On this basis of reasoning we intrench ourselves, and timidly, very timidly, even secretly, lest the wise man catch us, eliminate the boomerang.
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