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nature-music when both Greek and Chinaman were 

 guided by intuition and the heart, when Hke the 

 birds they freely sang just as they happened to feel. 

 Why in those two eases the natural attitude toward 

 music was forsaken in favor of arbitrary theories is 

 a question closely connected with the life and spirit 

 of the two nations, a discussion of which does not 

 enter into the plan of this book. Our subject has 

 been defined, it is one music, in the nature-stages of 

 which human selection was unconsciously governed 

 by natural selection, in the art-stages of which human 

 selection was consciously governed by natural selec- 

 tion. 



11. Rationale of Micsic 



The elemental what of music is form and relation 

 of united rhythm and tone. The explanation of 

 this form and relation, their inherent principles and 

 laws, will discover not alone the true nature of 

 this elemental what, but also answers to its how? 

 and why? Elemental tone-rhythm and its indwell- 

 ing principles and laws of self-development there- 

 fore constitute the what, how and why, in a word, 

 the rationale of music. What.? is the question of 

 ultimate importance. Until this essential question 

 is answered the inquiries how.? and why.? are futile 

 since they lack a subject, since, in other words, we 

 do not know what we are inquiring about. 



12. Common Reports of Commxm Feeling 



Whether their theories are based on acoustics, 

 physiology or psychology, all investigators set out 

 with a common view of the ultimate question What 



