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CHAPTER I - PRELIMINARIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2010

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There are probably but few people in the world so morose as to find no pleasure either in the exercise or the receipt of sympathy, and it is to be hoped there are very few so blind or perverse as to regard it as an undesirable and useless factor in the human psychological outfit. Whether it is the higher development of an original instinct which enabled mankind to rise above the rest of the animal world by co-operation and mutual helpfulness, or whether it is the outcome of the state of mutual dependence which is the lot of human beings, it is obviously a quality without which society could hardly continue to exist in the complicated state of organisation at which it has arrived. The jarring interests of hurrying, striving millions require something more than mere cold-blooded utilitarian motives to keep them properly balanced; and in matters of everyday life the impulses which tend to mutual helpfulness and forbearance are fed by the ordinary phases of this omnipresent instinct. But there are many kinds and infinitely variable degrees of sympathy, and some people love best to bestow it, and some there are who much prefer to receive it.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009
First published in: 1896

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  • PRELIMINARIES
  • C. Hubert H. Parry
  • Book: The Evolution of the Art of Music
  • Online publication: 29 August 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511693212.002
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  • PRELIMINARIES
  • C. Hubert H. Parry
  • Book: The Evolution of the Art of Music
  • Online publication: 29 August 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511693212.002
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  • PRELIMINARIES
  • C. Hubert H. Parry
  • Book: The Evolution of the Art of Music
  • Online publication: 29 August 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511693212.002
Available formats
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