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gg THE PHONOGRAM Noise possesses no healing power since it is itself a state of inharmony, being distinguished from music by its irregular, nonperiodic vibrations. Music is health, noise the disease of sound. When any part of the body is diseased, the music in that part is still; inharmony or noise prevails. In listening to music, the mind absorbs those tones which have become silenced in itself, and in the body as a necessary conse- quence, just as the stomach assimilates those food elements which are required to repair the waste of the system. Thus, our music food is selected and distributed where it is most needed, and this natural selection of musical vibrations acts specifically upon those parts of the body which are out of harmony. There is a circulation of thought as well as of blood, and musical thought laden with vibratory nutri- ment deposits the right vibration at the right place. The healing virtue of music becomes apparent when we realize that the tendency of all thought is toward extemalization or manifestation in the flesh. The body is literally built up from our thinking, hence musical thinking must pro- duce a definite physical result. Most of our modem music, especially instrumental, is too rapid in character, too unstable, inconstant to the key, to be of service in physical healing. Long sustained tones are best adapted for specific results. A musical tone heals by virtue of its regular, periodic vibration. Repetitions of this vibratory period, forming pitch and giving to the tone a smooth, undisturbed character, act upon disordered mental states similarly as oil upon the waters. The mind is so shaped by the sonorous groove or mould in which it is cast as to assume sympathetically the three characteristics of the tone—force, pitch, quality. When the mould is with- /