“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian
The History of the Worthies of England (1662): Musicians.
“The likelihood is that, in 100,000 years time, we shall either have reverted to wild barbarism, or else civilisation will have advanced beyond all recognition – into colonies in outer space, for instance. In either case, evolutionary extrapolations from present conditions are likely to be highly misleading.”
The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)
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