The Taste for Music
The taste for music us inborn in man, and it first shows in the
infant. Music is known to a child from its cradle, but as it grows
in this world of delusion its mind becomes absorbed in so many and
various objects, that it loses the aptitude for music which its
soul possessed. When grown-up, man enjoys and appreciates music
in accordance with his grade of evolution, and with the surroundings
in which he has been born and brought up; the man of the wilderness
sings his wild lays, and the man of the city his popular song. The
more refined man becomes, the finer the music he enjoys. The character
in every man creates a tendency for music akin to it; in other words
the gay man enjoys light music, while the serious-minded person
prefers classical; the intellectual man takes delight in technique,
while the simpleton is satisfied with his drum.
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