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Descent of Man

I see I must make clear that music by no means is associated with simply love alone; it is perhaps in the case of many animals associated with rivalry & the endeavour to excite other males in excellence & with triumph - so that the case of a cock, (hens vary) is furnished as a expression of triumph. It is also a challenge with many animals. Now the feelings of love, & the desire to please rivalry & triumph & a challenge for war, unilaterally associated together wd give rise to their strong emotions feelings, as

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an animal careful, with the exceptions perhaps of extreme rage or terror or pain, & such feelings are not excited by music. A fine martial strain perhaps is exciting as anything wd prove at least to a non-highly educated man. So such as the latter we cannot tell how much acquired - or as artistic [illeg] much as the admiration of savages.

The shiver down back is associated not only with music, but with grand scenery, with the account of any terrors actions & so forth, & so merely a rudiment of the trembling when all strong emotions excited

[left margin:] Probably action have many & strong emotion to singing of a bird or associated.—

[right margin:] If certain strains were firmly associated with certain feelings as of triumph or a challenge — then strains of an opposite notion wd probably excite opposite emotions.