The Independent

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Excerpt from The Independent: January-April, 1920, Volume 101-102The first music to soothe the savage breast was the soughing Of the wind thru the trees. Then strings were stretched across a crevice for the wind to play upon and there was the Aeolian harp. The second stage was entered when Hermes strung the tortoise shell and plucked it with his fingers and when Athena, raising the wind from her own lungs, forced it thru a hollow reed. From these beginnings we have the organ and the orchestra, producing such sounds as nothing nature can equal.The first idol was doubtless a meteorite fallen from heaven or a fulgurite or concretion picked up from the sand, bearing some slight resemblance to a human be ing. Later man made gods in his own image and so sculpture and painting grew until now the creations Of futuristic art could be worshipped - if one wanted to - Without violation Of the second commandment, for they are not the likeness Of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.