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All harmony is founded on a relation to rest -- on relative rest. Take a / metallic plate, and strew sand on it; sound an harmonic chord over the / sand, and the grains will whirl about in circles, and other geometrical / figures, all, as it were, depending on some point of sand relatively at / rest. Sound a discord, and every grain will whisk about without any order / at all, in no figures, and with no points of rest.
The clerisy of a nation, that is, its learned men, whether poets, or / philosophers, or scholars, are these points of relative rest. There could / be no order, no harmony of the whole, without them.