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
... 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.
... 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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