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Musical Memories

CHAPTER VIII
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Feeling for art is, however, inherent in human nature.

The weapons of primitive peoples are beautiful.

The prehistoric hatchets of the Stone Age are perfect in their contours.

There is, therefore, no question of creating a feeling for art in the people, but of awakening it.
Music holds so important a place in the modern world, that we ought to begin with that.

There is plenty of gay music, easy to understand, which is in harmony with the laws of art, and the people ought to hear it instead of the horrors which they cram into our ears under the pretence of satisfying our tastes.


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