. . .a beautiful tree bears nothing, simply because an ignorant gardener, by what he calls pruning, has disturbed the proportions of its parts.

In music it is the same, and Shakespeare knew it when he wrote,

               “How sour sweet music is
When time is broke, and no proportion kept.”

But there is no illustration more perfect than that of light.  In pure white light there are many parts, but all in perfect harmony.  Let any one colour be left out, or its strength be diminished, and the pure white is seen no more.  If we wish for purity in light we must have the whole spectrum, and have it just as God has given it.  Let man disturb it in any way whatever, let him keep back any colour, because it does not suit his taste, or isolate any other colour, because for it he feels a special preference, and the result will be that he will no longer look on the pu. . . Read More