Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Songs of the Morning, Vol. 1 of 2: Original and Selected
Many of those who have consciously rejected the dogmas of old superstition are yet in the acute stage of the outer intellect's strife for liberty to unfold reason's commencing life. Perceiving how effective a use ecclesiastical institutions and pow ers make Of singing to enslave the emotions to superstition, they half-suppose that music and emotion united must be a foe to intellectual free dom, and thus they leave this powerful means of Nature's grace to work against them, while they are chilled and benumbed for want Of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
