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than in the other ; and what attention can we sup- 

 pose to have been originally given if, from the cause 

 which I have ventured to state as a possible one in 

 persons without musical ear, no pleasure had ori- 

 ginally been felt by them in any sequence of notes as 

 successive, and the whole value of sound been to 

 them, the meaning of which it was symbolically re- 

 presentative, which, accordingly, they have learned 

 to discriminate in every other case as accurately as 

 others*?" 



* Brown's Lectures, ii. 318. 



