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The Violin and its Music, 1881
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1Section VI.—The Violin in Italy.
3CHAPTER II.
5SIDNEY SMITH was certainly right in saying, "That man is not the discoverer who first says the thing, but he who says it so long, and so loud, and so clearly, that he compels mankind to hear him."
7It was Corelli who spoke so long, so loud, and so clearly with regard to the Music of the Violin; it was Galileo who did so for experimental science; and it was Bacon who did likewise for experimental philosophy. Indeed, their utterances were so peculiarly distinct as, if not to drown the voices of their predecessors, to at least render them all but inaudible. That this should have been so may seem remarkable when we reflect that the clearing of the ground upon which true genius was to exert itself was the task these all but forgotten men set themselves to perform. Material was at hand; but the ability to utilize it in forming a foundation upon which their followers might depend, was wanting. It was this skilful work which these master-minds undertook, and succeeded in accomplishing; and thus it comes
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