Time for another quote. This time it’s from \u00a0British biologist and scientific writer Thomas Henrey Huxley (1825-1895), who’s passage on how the principle of Unity in Variety can relate to ideas and music I really like:<\/p>\n
‘I cannot give you any example of a thorough\u00a0aesthetic pleasure more intensely real than a\u00a0pleasure of this kind-the pleasure which arises\u00a0in one’s mind when a whole mass of different\u00a0structures run into one harmony as the expression\u00a0of a central law – it has often occurred to\u00a0me that the pleasure derived from musical compositions\u00a0of this kind [Bach’s fugues] is essentially\u00a0of the same nature as that which is derived\u00a0from pursuits which are commonly regarded as\u00a0purely intellectual. I mean, that the source of\u00a0pleasure is exactly the same as in most of my\u00a0problems in morphology-that you have the\u00a0theme in one of the old master’s works followed\u00a0out in all its endless variations, always appearing\u00a0and always reminding you of unity in variety.’<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thomas Henry Huxley in \u2018On Science and Art in Relation to Education'(1882\u00a0(1725, p.10);<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"