Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-12-10
THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC.


written by l. Piroschnioff; translated
by Adoiph Hoffman, of Americus.)
The prose of life refers to poetry of
life, like bread to salt, the former can
only bring ordinary pleasure, the latter
bring happiness.
Everybody discusses about happf-
ress, the people at large are striving
to happiness all their lives, but rarely
anybody conceives the absolute truth,
that happiness comes from within, not
from without
No external conditions can bring
happiness to the man, if he alone is
not internally capable to understand
happiness, that means able to observe
and feel the tender sides of life, the
most favorable matters cannot felici-
tate such man, just like the prettiest
paintings cannot decorate a dark room.
The feeling Of happiness is properly
a sort of poetic ecstacy, to which igno-
rant people are not capable, an I'M
taught or illiterate can be satisfied, but
habit can only be man with cleri-
cal and developed human nature, that
is capable to see to feel and to use out
the poetic sides from pure human
life.
From all human abilities there is
not single one, that will cooperate
so much to human happiness like the
fantasy-she is the fire on which hui
man happiness must be boiled, without
It will lemain tough. The fantasy is
properly an innate human ability like
all other abilities; she must be de-
veloped through education, poery, art,
otherwise her fire can be extinguished
and the human heart will remain cold
and dark.
All Branches of art have a great in
fiuence ON the development of the
fantasy but not all are equal, for in
stance i'll poetry the fantasy is limited
with the words of which she cannot
fly away far, in paintings likewise she
is limited with the imaginary subject,
the same is exactly true with sculp-
ture and architecture.
! In all these branches of art the fan
tasy can only be raised in one certain
direction, because she is bound to the
matter, that the piece of art is exposed
to, the only branch of art, where the
fight of the fantasy is perfectly free
is Music-the tunes that produce her
have not a definite significance, and
the fantasy. that they awake can fly
free in all directions even high to the
skies.
Really, by whom among you, my
readers, music did not challenge, but
once in life a sublime feeling, the
/ kind of holy spirit, that you were una
bic to express with words, in no hui
man tongue, you feel like it raises your
soul into height, farther from your
everyday affairs and neae to the heav-
emily sphere. and you cannot find a
name for your sentiment, such happy
moments in human life are produces
cftener, than science, and as said be-
fore, of all branches of art music in
this respect takes the first place. No
other branches of art can challenge in
YOU heart such occult and omnipotent
feeling as music, similar feeling you
can only outlive in love, and l think
this is for music a sufficient compli-
ment.
Certainly among all our human func-
tons the feeling plays the principay
part; she produces the main functions
Of our life. No doubt that live be-
cause | feel it, said one great philos-
opher, but that feeling alone is not
all for humanity. We must also know
how to express what we feel. Nothing
is so painful for us as a feeting that
we are unable to express with words,
rlay it be JOY or suffering. The heart
can burst from JOY as well as from suf-
fering concerning the human tongue.
she chiefly can express our mind. but
in case of some deep and internal feel
ing she is mostly powerless. In this
case you can make such little use of
it, as with large pair of pliers to a
watch mechanism. De know, for in
stance that an actor sometimes ex-