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'Ad exercitium Salamandri! Eins! Zwei! Drei! Greif brought his glass down upon the table as he spoke the last words, and the long roll began, like rattling musketry, again and again, to the due number of times. Greif sat down amidst thunders of applause.
Smiles and grave nods of approval are considered as more seeming among German students. A particular toast, called a Salamander, accorded to some guest as a special distinction, is drunk with exceptional solemnity. We all rise, and stand like a regiment at attention. "Is the stuff prepared?" "Sunt," we answer, with one voice. "Ad exercitium Salamandri," says the chairman, and we are ready.
The Doctor himself holdeth, that one simple presbyter howsoever having, by virtue of his presbyterial order, power to give ordination, quod ad actum primum sive aptitudinem, yet quo ad exercitium cannot validly give ordination without a commission from the bishop or from the presbytery, if either there be no bishop, or else he be a heretic or wolf.
The explanation given by Leibnitz that it is an exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi is quite inadequate. Music is not a purely intellectual affection like that of number and proportion, but is in the highest degree emotional. The pleasure which we receive from contemplating a mathematical process of great complexity is altogether different from that of music.
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