o give joy.

This turns our thoughts to two things: First, to the men and women who
by their usefulness and labor increased the meaning of music. This is
the glory of their days. Second, we look to ourselves with feeble
hands and perhaps little talent, and the thought comes to us, that
with all we have we are to seek not our own glorification but the joy
of others.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE IDEAL.

"Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile, plus peutetre."--_Victor
Hugo._

Mozart once had a friend named Gottfried von Jacquin, who was a man of
careful thought, and evidently a good musician,--for we are told that
a melody composed by him is frequently said, even to this day, to be
by Mozart. This Gottfried lived in Vienna with his father, and to
their house Mozart often went. At this time Mozart had an album in
which his friends were invited to write. Among the verses is a
sentiment written by Gottfried von Jacquin, saying:

"True genius is impossible without heart; no amount of intellect alone
or of imagination, no, nor of both together, can make genius. Love is
the soul of genius."

Here we have the same truth told us which we have already found for
ourselves, namely, that all good music comes from the heart. We have
found it by studying music and striving faithfully to get deep into
its real meaning. But to-day we have the words of one who was enabled
to watch closely as a friend one of the greatest composers that ever
lived. And being much with him, hearing the music of the master played
by the master himself, put the thought into his head, that it is
impossible to be a true genius without heart and love.

From this we shall have courage to know that what we pursue in music
is real; that the beauties of great music, though they may just now be
beyond us, are true, and exist to those who are prepared for them.
When in our struggle to be more capable in art than we are to-day we
think of the beauty around us, and desire to be worthy of it, we are
then forming an ideal, and ideals are only of value when we strive to
live up to them.

Once in Rome there lived a Greek slave--some day you may read his
name. He has told us, that "if thou wouldst have aught of good, have
it from thyself."[61] Of course we see in this, immediately, the truth
that has been spoken of in nearly every one of these Talks. It is
this: We must, day by day, become better acquainted with ourselves,
study our thoughts, have purity of heart,