British Writers On Classic Lands; a Literary Sketch
British Writers On Classic Lands; a Literary Sketch
Albert Stratford George Canning
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" After stating boldly that " the degradation of the Jewish race is alone a striking 112 British Writers proof of its excellence, for none but one of the great races could have survived the trials it has endured, " he proceeds to exalt Jewish superiority in music in what may be too partial a strain : "Music seems to be the only means of creating the beautiful in which we not only equal, but in all probability greatly excel, the ancients. The music of modern Europe ranks with the transcendent cr...eations of human genius, the poetry, the statues, the temples of Greece. It produces and represents, as they did, whatever is most beautiful in the spirit of man, and often expresses what is most profound. And who are the great composers ? " DisraeH finally answers his own question, in ascrib- ing the chief if not the only excellence in musical composition to those, like himself, of Jewish descent, while not naming the many famous Italian, French, and German composers who were wholly uncon- nected with the Hebrew race.
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