Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false...

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false...

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but...

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but...

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not...

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not...