The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-10-17
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But he never fell into the error of arrest
ing his intellectual development by mn,
FORMAL acceptance OF creed or system, or o.
installing, for a house in which to live, n,
inn that is but suitable for q %sojourn of {
night, or for a few hours Of a night in which
there are no stars and no moon is in travail
Mysticism, with its marvellous power OF
making common things strange to us, and
the subtle antinomianism that always seems
to accompany it, moved him for q reason;
and fog season he inclined to the ma
terialistic doctrines of the "Darwinismusn
movement in Germany, and found u curious
pleasure in tracing the thoughts and
passions OF men to some pearly cell in the
brain, or some white nerve in the body, de-
lighting in the conception of the absolute
dependence of the spirit on certain physical
conditions, morbid or healthy, normal or
diseased. Vet, as has been said of him BE-
fore, no theory of life seemed to him to be
Of any Importance compared with life
itself. He felt keenly conscious Of
how barren all intellectual speculation is
when separated from actionande experiment.
He knew that the senses, nc less than the
soul, have their mysteries to reveal
And so he would now study perfumes,
and the secrets of their manufacture, dis
tilling heavily scented oils, and burning
odorous gums from the East. He saw that
there was no mood of the mind that had not
its counterpart in the sensuous life, and set
hiu,ca1f IN 1iscotrar thair t,,,a ,,1n4;oa,
wondering what there was in frankincense
that made one mystical, and in umbergris
that. stirred ones passions, and in violets
that woke the memory of dead remances,
and in musk that troubled the brain, and in
chamdak that stained the Imagination; and
seeking often to elaborate a real psychology
of perfumes, and to estimate the several in
fuences of sweet-smelling roots, and scent
ed pollen-laden flowers, of aromatic balms.
and of dark and fragrant woods, of spiken-
ard that sickens, of hovena that makes men
mad, and Of aloes that are said to be able to
expel melancholy from the soul.
At another time he devoted himself en-.
tirely to music, and in a long, latticed room,
with q vermilion-and-gold ceiling and walls
Of olive-green lacquer, he used to give
curious concerts in which mad gypsies tore
wild music from little zithers, or gave
yellow-shawled Tunisians plucked at the
strained strings of monstrous lutes, while
grinning negroes beat monotonously upon
copper drums, or turbaned Indians, crouch
ing upon scarlet mats, blew through long
pipes of reed or brass, and charmed, or
feigned to charm great hooded snakes and
horrible horned adders. The harsh inter-
vols ap5 chri1H 1iSror1o pf ho,,ho,.ic ,npcip
stirred him at times when Schubert's grace,
and Chopin's beautiful sorrows, and the
mighty har1nonies of Beethoven himself fell
UNDECIDED on his ear. He collected together
from all parts of the world the %strangest in
struments that could be found, either in the
tombs of dead nations or among the few
savage tribes that have survived contact
with Western civilizations, and loved to
touch and try them. He had the mysterious
firuparis of the Rio Negro Indians. that
women are not allowed to look at, and chat
even youths may not see till they have been
subjected to fasting and %scourging, and the
earthen jars of the Peruvians that have the
shrill cries of birds, and flutes of human
bones such US Alfonso de Ovalle heard in
Chilli, and the sonorous green stones that
are found near Cuzeo and give forth a note
of singular sweetness. He had painted
gourds filled with pebbles that ratified when
they were shaken: the long cla,in of the
Mexicans, into which the performer does
not blow, but through which he inhales the
air; the harsh turs of the Amazon tribes.
that is sounded by the sentinels who sit all
day long in trees, and that can be heard, it
is said, at a distance Of three leagues; the
tcpondztli, that has two vibrating tongues Of
wood, and is beaten with sticks that are
smeared with an elastic gum obtained from
the milky juice of plants; tho votl-bells of
the Aztecs, that are hung in clusters like
grapes; and a huge cylindrical drum, covered
with the skins of great %serpents, like the
one that Bernal Diaz saw when he went
with Cortes into the Mexican temple, and
of whose doleful sound be has left us SO
vivid a description. The fantastic character
of these instruments fascinated him, and he
felt a curious delight in the thought that
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things
of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Yet, after some time, he wearied of them,
and would sit in his box at the opera, either
alone or with Lord Henry, listening in
rapt pleasure to .''Tannhauser," and seeing
in the great work of art a presentation OF
the tragedy of his OWE soul.
On another occasion he took up the study
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