The Progress., 1898-04-30

inc The external ear is defended by
wax which with it's bitterness discour-
ages insectile invasion. The internal
ear embedded in by what is far the
hardest bone of the human syst EN-,
very rock of strength and defiance.
The ear is SO strange contrlvance
that by the estimate OF one scientist 1t
can catch the sound of 70, 700 vibrations
in a second. The outer ear taking in
all kinds of sound, whether the crash
Of an avalanche or the hum Of bee.
The sound passing to the inner door Of
the outside ear halts until another mech
anis1n, Divine mechanism, pas ses it
on by the bonelets of the middle ear,
and coming to the inner door of that
second ear the sound has no power to
come-furt her until another Divine mech
anism passes it on through into the
inner ear, and then the sound comes to
the rail track of the brain branchlet,
and rolls on and on until it comes to
sensation, and there the curtain drops,
and a hundred gates shut, and the voice
of God seems to say to all human in
spection: Thus far and no farther"
In this vestibulc of the palace Of the
soul, how many kings Of thought, of
medicine, of physiology, have done
penance of lifelong study and got no
further than the vestibule. Mysterious
hcme of reverberation and echo. Grand
central depot of sound. Headquarters
to which there come quick dispatches,
part the way by cartillages, part the
way by air, part the way by bone, part
the way by nerve-the slowest dispatch
plunging into the ear at the speed Of
900 feet a second. Small instrument
of music on which is played all the
music YOU ever heard, from the gran
deurs of an August thunderstorm to the
softest breathings of a flute Small in
strument of music, only a quarter Of an
| inch of surface and the thinness of one
| two hundred and fiftieth part OF an
| inch and that thinness divided into
three layers. In that ear musical staff,
lines, spaces, bar and rest. bridge
| leading from the outside natural world
| to the inside spiritual world; we See
| ing the abutment at this end OF the
bridge, but the fog of an unified mys
| terry hiding the abdtment on tn. 9th -
| end OF the bridge. Whispering gallery
Or the soul. The human voice is Gods
eulogy the ear. That voice capa BILE of
producing II ,592, 1S6, O44,415 sounds, and
all that variety made, not for the re-
galement of beast or bird: bat for the
human ear.
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down in death one whom many con-
sidered the greatest musical composer
of the century. Struggling on up from
six years of age when he was left faith
erless, Wagner rose through the oblo-
guy of the world, and ofttimeS all ma
| tionS seemingly against him, until be
gained the favor of a king, and won
the enthusiasm of the opera houses of
Europe and America. Struggling all
the way on to 20 years of age, to con-
ouer the worlds ear. In that same at
tempt to master the human ear and
gain supremacy over this gate of the
immortal soul, great battles were
fought by Mozart, Gluck and Weber,
and by Beethoven and Meyerbeer, by
Rossini and by all the roll of German
and Italian and French composers,
some of them in the battle leaving
their blood on the keynotes and the
| musical scores. Great battle fought
| for the ear-fought with baton, with
organ-pipe, with trumpet, with cor