“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.”
More from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.”
“My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do…”
“If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as…”