text:  But when to this is added a mastery over the mysterious combinations of harmony a spirit that can make subservient to its one object immense masses of dissimilar and sometimes discordant sounds; and like the leader of a battle can ride on the whirlwind and direct the storm till it subdue the whole soul taking captive all our feelings corporeal and mental and moulding them to its will--a power of this nature seems to equal in dignity the highest faculties of genius in any of its forms as it undoubtedly surpasses all the others in the overwhelming and instantaneous efficacy of its agency while thus working its wonders