from a Philosophy of great value in all the fine arts. In substance they are as follows.

LAW OF MOTION.

Motion is force expending itself.

Gesture is the mus

cular action by which the soul expresses itself.

There are three kinds of motion:

Eccentric or from the center.

Concentric or toward the center.

Poised or balanced.

All thought or feeling is either of self or something outside of self or a blending together of the two.

Thought about any thing outside of self requires eccentric motion,

Thought about self requires concentric motion. Thought about self and something outside of self at the same time requires poised motion.

Eccentric motion is in harmony with the physical side of the being. It has to do with objective thought. Concentric motion is subjective and has to do with concentric, mental states.

Poised motion is expressive of exalted mood's and noble emotions.

Examples of Eccentric Motion,

Ye eagles, playmates of the mountain storm!
Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds!
Ye signs and wonders of the elements !
Utter forth God and fill the hills with praise.

Coleridge

"The battle, the battle! How goes the battle? "

"Be it said in letters both bold and bright:

Here is the steed that saved the day
By carrying Sheridan into the fight

From Winchester- twenty miles away.

Examples of Concentric Motion.

"The tender tune, faint floating, plays,
In moonlit lays, a melody of other days.'

"O Hamlet speak no more:

Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul:
And there I see such black and grained spots
As will not leave their tinct. "

Examples of Poised Motion.

"My heart is awed within me, when I think
Of the great miracle that still

goes on

In silence round me, the perpetual work

Of thy creation, finished yet renewed forever. "

"My lord, if you ask me, if in my life-time

I thought any treason, or did any crime

That should call to my cheek, as I stand alone here,
The hot blush of shame or the coldness of fear,
Though I stood by the grave to receive my death-blow,
Before God and the world I would answer you, no!"

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. "

Passion tends to expansion. Thought tends to contraction. Love or affection moderates gcsture.

LAW OF VELOCITY.

Velocity is in proportion to the mass moved and the force moving it. Sublime sentiment with profound appreciation moves slowly. Light feeling moves rapidly. Examples of Slow Movement,

And slowly, slowly, more and more,

The moony vapor rolling around the king,
Who seem'd the phantom of a giant in it,
Enwound him fold by fold, and made him grey
And greyer, till himself became as mist
Before her, moving ghost-like to his doom.

Tennyson.

"It must be by his death and for my part,
I know no personal cause to spurn at him,
But for the general. He would be crown'd.
What he is, augmented,

Would run to these and these extremities:
And therefore, think him as a serpent's egg which,
Hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,
And kill him in the shell. "

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard."

The above lines read by a careless schoolboy would move more rapidly than if rendered by one who could comprehend and appreciate the full value of the thought. Whatever the sentiment the above law holds good. In speech large bodies move slowly. Superficial sentiment moves lightly as in the following examples.

Examples of Rapid Movement.

"Fill again to the brim! again to the brim!
For water strengtheneth life and limb!
To the days of the aged it addeth length,
To the might of the strong it addeth strength;
It freshens the heart, it brightens the sight,
'Tis like quaffing a goblet of morning light! "
"Oh, the buxom girls that help the boys,

The nobler Helens of the humbler Troys
As they strip the husk with rustling fold

From eight rowed corn as yellow as gold,
By the candle-light, in pumpkin bowls,

And the gleams that showed fantastic holes
In the quaint old lantern's tattooed tin,
From the hermit glim set up within;

By the rarer light in girlish eyes

As dark as wells, or as blue as skies. "

LAW OF DIRECTION.

The lengths are vital. The heights and depths are mental. The breadths are emotive. Concentration tends toward our selfish states, while giving out and going out of self corresponds to our benevolent states.

Example of Vital Action in Lengths.

Lie still, lie still! till I lean o'er

And clutch your red blade to the shore.
Ha, ha! Take that, and that, and that!

Ha ha! So through your coward throat
The full day shines!

Jaquin Miller.

Down Eros! Up Mars! Chariot Race." Ben-Hur. Wallace.

In meditation and other thoughtful moods the eyes seek the blue- either the height of the blue sky or the depth of the blue water.

Examples of Mental Action in Heights and Depths,—

When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that Thou visitest him? Contemplation.

"Ah, once more,

Psalms VII.

"I cried, "ye stars, ye waters,

On my heart your mighty charm renew;

Still, still let me as

I gaze upon you,

Feel my soul becoming vast like you! "

"Self-Dependence. "

Matthew Arnold.

Examples of Benevolent Action in Breadths,

"These glorious truths shall be diffused throughout the whole earth. "

"The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

LAW OF REACTION.

Action and reaction are equal. Extreme emotion tends to react to its opposite. Elasticity, spring and a tendency to rebound are marks of life.

Examples of reaction are found in expressions of admiration: a painter admiring his work would react away from it. In anger there is a recoil before the blow. In milder emotions action and reaction are equal.