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tradiction ; the desire of conquest, perverted according to the 
peaceful character of Christianity, became commercialism. If 
once war killed the bodies of men, now commercialism does 
its best to kill their souls; in this sense an English Bishop has 
himself proclaimed, ‘‘ If feudalism was bad, plutocracy is infin- 
itely worse because of its powers of corruption.’’ There is no 
abandonment to things and objective laws. Did not Christ him- 
self pronounce the Divine sentence : ‘‘ What shall it profit a 
man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’’ 
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true realism.”’ 
The present state of music in Europe and in the East, this 
state which is the cause of the beforementioned lack of musical 
understanding between East and West, is the following: 
Europe, which, in its whole moral life, subordinates, as we have 
seen, her soul to external duties, subordinates her music to the 
laws of sounds, sounds, as sounds, being as exterior to the musi- 
cal soul, as all that surrounds us is exterior to what 7s (or what 
ought to be) in us. What does that mean? The music of 
Europe follows the laws of sounds, of physics and acoustics and 
of physiology, and is not psychological. The basis itself of the 
actual European music, the equal temperament which regulates 
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’s will. Here you have the musical 
I See for further details the “« Psychology of Sounds,’” of the Ger- 
man Professor Carl Stumpf. SEN OL ere See 
