Through all this decorative movement there was something more than decoration understood as mere ornamentation--there was the keenest evidence of soul movement on the part of the artist. The music gloriously celebrated the passions of love, ambition and triumph that had filled the souls of the artists when engaged in their incomparable labors, and pealed forth that serene life of the spirit as symbolized in the perfect works of art exhibited, wherein were sealed in eternal magnificence fragments of the souls that had created them. Between the pauses of the music an organ-megaphone shouted forth in musically-stentorian tones the words that had been impressed on its cylinders in praise of art. The five thousand priests and priestesses of art had simultaneously shouted their art ritual down five thousand tubes, which were all focussed into a single tube of large calibre. The multitudinous sound of their voices had been indelibly impressed on this phonograph-megaphone that now yielded up the sentiments impressed upon it, its tones being that of a vast multitude, re-enforced by the vibrating music of an organ, which was a part of the megaphone. These were the passages repeated by the instrument with a startling splendor of sound: THE MESSAGE OF THE MEGAPHONE. I. To define art is to define life. II. Art is a language that describes the souls of things. III. Art in nature is the expression of life; in art it is life itself. IV. Art is too subtle a quality to be defined by the formula of the critic. It is greater than all of the definitions that have tried to grasp it. V. Art is the glowing focus from which radiate thought, imagination and feeling, gifted with the power of utterance. VI. True art is generous, passionate, earnest, vivid, enthusiastic. So also is the true artist. VII. To satisfy the far-reaching longing of the spirit, art makes things more glorious than they are. It is the perfect expression of a perfect environment. VIII. To mould his symbols with the same life that fills his conception of the idea is the supreme effort of the artist. IX. As nature from the coarse soil produces flowers, so also the artist from every-day life produces the subtle sweets of art. X. Art that is simply utility is not sufficiently decorative to delight every nerve of feeling in the soul. To feed these, many flavors of form and color are necessary, and hence the necessity of art. XI. Where do emotion and imagination begin in art? Where do spirit and flesh unite in a living creature? XII.