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The Politics Of War • The barometer of civilization

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Music is applied mathematics and physics, employed for aesthetic and emotional effect.  It is, really, technology's artsy cousin. And therefore I submit that only a civilization that could produce this

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... could invent the locomotive. 

Speaking more broadly, I would like to contest the myth - the lie, really - that Europe became advanced and powerful by dominating the world.  That has it backwards: Europe came to dominate the world because it was advanced and powerful, and the roots of this can be traced most clearly through music: a field in which Western civilization has always been unmatched and indeed unchallenged. 

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