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productions of art to which pedantry, affectation, or a 
powerful hand, have given birth. But, alas ! fuch a with 
muft have been formed without reflexion; for mufic 
having its claffics as well as poetry and other arts, what 
could he compofe or play upon different principles that 
would not offend the ears of thofe who have regarded 
thofe claffics as legiflators, and whofe fouls have been 
wrapped in elyfium by their {trains ? He might as well, 
if fecluded from all intercourfe with men, be expeCted 
to invent a better language than the prefent Englifh, the 
work of millions, during many centuries, as a new mufic 
more grateful to the ears of a civilized people than that 
with which all Europe is now delighted. 
An individual may doubtlefs advance nearer perfec- 
tion in every art by the affiftance of thoufands, than by 
the mere efforts of his own labour and genius. 
Another wiffi has been formed, that the effects of dif- 
ferent genera and divifions of the mufical fcale might be 
tried upon this little mufician ; but the fuccefs of fuch 
an experiment is not difficult to divine. An unculti- 
vated ear would as naturally like the moft plain and com 
mon mufic, as a young mind would beft comprehend the 
moft: Ample and evident propofitions : and, as yet, the 
attention of crotch cannot be excited by any mufical 
refinements or elaborate contrivance* 
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