Note 44 — HERBERT SPENCER AND THE ORIGIN OF MUSIC
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"A peasant, who as the result of a heavy blow on the head lay unconscious for three days, found, when he came to himself, that he had forgotten all the music he ever knew, though he had lost nothing else."—Ibid., p. 64 (quoted from Carpenter, Mental Physiology, 4th edit., p. 443).