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It also implies a deeper study into human co-ordinations; it tries to show a universal necessity of rhythm and is an endeavor to establish the higher principles of training in a way that makes them applicable to the most simple of human actions. The student is requested to study himself, to make a demonstration of every claim and of more than is claimed.
First it is the knowledge of the simple forms into which all the variety of nature is convertible, the definitions which account for all that which is always the same in all the difference, that which is always permanent in all the change; first it is the doctrine of 'those simple original forms, or differences of things, which like the alphabet are not many, the degrees and co-ordinations whereof make all this variety, and then it is the doctrine of their combinations, the combinations which nature has herself accomplished, those which the arts have accomplished, and those which are possible, which have not been accomplished, those which the universal nature working in the human, working in each, from the platform of the human, from that height in her ascending scale of species, dictates now, demands, divinely orders, divinely instructs us in.
This proportion is in alternation: alternation of activity and passivity, and in alternation of one part with another, as in walking. Rhythm is the continuity of co-ordinations. Co-ordinations cannot be properly preserved without rhythm nor can there be rhythm without co-ordinations. The exercises 2 to 6 should all be included in No. 1.
We shall always have the right rhythmic curves if we have the right centrality and co-ordinations. One of the greatest effects of music is due to the rhythm. All movements, however, have a rhythm of their own. Use in every exercise, as far as possible, all the primary actions of the muscles. We can distinguish four actions of the muscles.
If this seems to establish the existence of some other law than that of "Natural Selection," then the operation of that other law may surely be also traced in the harmonious co-ordinations of dental form. The other difficulty, kindly suggested to me by the learned Professor, refers to the structure of birds, and of extinct reptiles more or less related to them.
And yet, so far was I beyond my tables, that all I needed was a mere look at a man to know his predispositions, his co-ordinations, and the index fraction of his motion-wastage. And here I must close this first chapter of my narrative. It is nine o'clock, and in Murderers' Row that means lights out.
In children the process of compensation, with its formation of new nervous co-ordinations, is manifest in the inability to cope with their companions who have a better biological endowment. This gives rise to a feeling of inferiority from which the child tries to free itself by every possible means, ordinarily by surpassing in the classroom the playmates whom it cannot defeat on the playground.
Awkward people lack both co-ordination and rhythm and the two are vitally connected. By establishing co-ordinations we begin to establish rhythm, and by establishing rhythm we help in the co-ordinations. The principle of rhythm applies to all our human actions. We should walk rhythmically, and we should stand allowing all the rhythmic curves of the body to have their normal relationship.
Everywhere there is a co-ordination of the finite and the infinite, the individual and the universal, a unity of forces acting in a sequence of natural co-ordinations. Of all the illustrations of rhythm one of the most important is the alternation of day and night. Every plant awakes and rejoices with the sun and it recognizes the sunset and goes to sleep as the darkness comes.
In vain do those who deny the unity of intention manifested in the relations of all the parts of this great whole, in vain do they conceal their nonsense under abstractions, co-ordinations, general principles, symbolic expressions; whatever they do I find it impossible to conceive of a system of entities so firmly ordered unless I believe in an intelligence that orders them.
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