W. Somerset Maugham
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It must commend itself at once to the proverbial good sense of Christians everywhere.
The trouble is that some architectural scoundrel of a priest is likely to build a religion upon it.
And what the world needs is theory.
Good, solid, nourishing theory.
CHAPTER thirty six
Chapter thirty seven of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Librebox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Doltuck.
Music, muscular and mechanical.
One cheerful evidence of the decivilization of the Anglo Saxon race is the late tendency to return to first principles in art, as manifested in substituting noise for music.
Herein we detect symptoms of a rapid relapse into original barbarism.
The savage who beats his gong or kettle drum until his face is of a delicate blue, and his eyes assert themselves like those of an unterrified snail.
believes that musical skill is a mere question of brawn.
A matter of muscle.
If not wholly ignorant of technical gymnastics, he has a theory that a deafness at dumbbells is a prime requisite in a finished artist.
The advance in a circle of civilization has only partially unsettled this belief in the human mind.
And we are constantly, though unconsciously, reverting to it.
It is true the modern demand for a great deal of music has outstripped the supply of muscle for its production.
But the ingenuity of man has partially made up for his lack of physical strength.
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