Chapter X: , especially the final paragraph. If a belief in Retributive

Justice, for example, is fatal to _Prometheus Unbound_, so in another way is the belief that the Millennium is at hand. To steer an unperplexed path between these opposite dangers is extremely difficult. The distinctions required are perhaps better left to the reader’s reflection than laboured further in the faulty terminology which alone at present is available.

[102] Cf. Gurney, _The Power of Sound_, p. 126. “A splendid melodic phrase seems continually not like an object of sense, but like an affirmation; not so much prompting admiring ejaculation as compelling passionate assent.” His explanation, through association with speech, seems to me inadequate. He adds that the use of terms such as “_expressiveness_ and _significance_, as opposed to meaninglessness and triviality, may be allowed, without the implication of any reference to transcendental views which one may fail to understand, or theories of interpretation which one may entirely repudiate.”

[103] Percy Dearmer, _The Necessity of Art_, p. 180.

[104] A.W. Pollard, _ibidem_, p. 135.