MAN'S POWERS OF UNDERSTANDING, THAN BE MISLED BY A TRUTH WHICH CAN
NEVER BE TRANSLATED FROM OBJECTIVITY TO SUBJECTIVITY. In such a
case, it is the error which is the truth and the truth the error.

Fearless himself, he could not understand the fears felt by others;
and this was perhaps his greatest sympathetic weakness. He was
impatient of the subterfuges with which untenable interpretations of
Scripture were defended, and of the disingenuousness of certain
harmonists; indeed, the mention of the word harmony was enough to
kindle an outbreak of righteous anger, which would sometimes go to
the utmost limit of righteousness. "Harmonies!" he would exclaim,
"the sweetest harmonies are those which are most full of discords,
and the discords of one generation of musicians become heavenly music
in the hands of their successors. Which of the great musicians has
not enriched his art not only by the discovery of new harmonies, but
by proving that sounds which are actually inharmonious are
nevertheless essentially and eternally delightful? What an outcry
has there not always been against the 'unwarrantable licence' with
the rules of harmony whenever a Beethoven or a Mozart has broken
through any of the trammels which have been regarded as the
safeguards of the art, instead of in their true light of fetters, and
how gratefully have succeeding musicians acquiesced in and adopted
the innovation." Then would follow a tirade with illustration upon
illustration, comparison of this passage with that, and an exhaustive
demonstration that one or other, or both, could have had no sort of
possible foundation in fact; he could only see that the persons from
whom he differed were defending something which was untrue and which
they ought to have known to be untrue, but he could not see that
people ought to know many things which they do not know.