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Excerpt from The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster: With Notes
Musicians tell us that their sounds possess a power Of expression beyond that of speech. In music, they say, the history, not of the heart merely, but even of a soul, can be expressed. Yet that expression is itself a veil. If words cannot go quite so far, they are at least distinct and interpretable to their last limit; while music, if it goes further, is the earlier lost. Thus it comes to pass that we are ever dumb where alone we would be eloquent. Between spirit and spirit there can be no adequately intelligible medium of, communication until the soul has burst from her prison. We must suffer the silence of Christian transfigurations, and other silences as per plexing, a little yet. The mysteries of religion, after eighteen hundred years, remain mysteries still; and the reticence of Holy Scripture is the standing and Divine rebuke of those human pens which aspire to fantastically supply clear and dreamed-of incidents in the Life of Our Lord for which even Inspiration could not find the fitting phrase: which the Mother of the Eternal Word spoke not of, but only pondered in her heart.
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