The Music of Hindostan c18.12

c18.12

Still, it is conceivable that a step in the argument could be jumped, and that a nation should go straight to harmony without first having felt the impulse which led to it, just as it is possible that Esperanto will become a living language although it is based on a different motive from that of all other languages on earth. The possibility depends on the actual achievements of composers in one case and of authors in the other, and it is vain to attempt to prophesy.