Just such music, only infinitely sweeter, does the soul find that listens amid its solitudes to the voice of God. (Text.)
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VOICE, THE HUMAN
The author of the “Descent of Man” thinks even the human voice is prophetic of the ascent of man. Speaking of the “wonderful power, range, flexibility, and sweetness of the musical sounds producible by the human larynx,” he says:
The habits of savages give no indication of how this faculty could have been developed. The singing of savages is a more or less monotonous howling, and the females seldom sing at all. It seems as if the organ had been prepared in anticipation of the future progress of man, since it contains latent capacities which are useless to him in his earlier condition.
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Voice, The Mother’s—See [Father’s Voice].
Voting—See [Ballot a Duty].
Vows—See [Gratitude].
Voyage of Life—See [Life a Voyage].