The Threshold of Music; An Inquiry Into the Development of the Musical Sense
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War has her victories no less than peace, and it is war, red-handed, that ultimate throe of human energy, that kneads the universe. Necessity on the one hand, on the other the power of resistance, set forth the boundaries. The inner strength can oppose the outward pressure, but without the most minute adjustment so as to resist impact and the cumulative force of external onset, the fabric may as well be but a spider's web. Read the lesson as we may, the very stones that paved the Appian Way cri...ed out in protest against the relaxation of those observances that made her and her sister, the Via Sacra, stand for the ancestry and dignity of race. Paris, it was said in later times, was worth a mass, but Rome in the decrepitude of empire was merely a thing to be gambled away for a sensation, and well it was that the gods had loaded the dice. We can reconstruct the nobler Roman's thoughts as he saw his imperium in imperio flung on the table, the last stake of all. Some welcome quietus from a blade roughly forged in the north ended for ever his anxiety on that score ; but every one who is stirred by love of country^ IV ROMAN AND GOTH 51 by the august pageantry of race, can understand what a man of these stately times suffered when some trumpery idol of straw was held up to conceal the lares and penates of his auspicious line.
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