Note 230 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY (continued 2)

The ethnological evidence for this statement is given in Wallaschek’s Primitive Music on nearly every page. Many good things on the origin of rhythm could be quoted from older writers. A. W. Schlegel undertook a physiological and genetic study of rhythm, but, at Schiller’s prompting, offered more attractive metal to the Kantlings with “das Beharrliche im Wechsel.” One notes, however, the modern tone of passages in the Berlin Lectures; e.g. I. 242 ff. Now and then he almost anticipates Bücher’s Arbeit und Rhythmus. Sulzer’s article in the Allgemeine Theorie is very interesting. For early material, see Blankenburg’s invaluable Litterarische Zusätze, 3 vols., 1796-1798. A good recent discussion is found in the third book of Guyau’s Problèmes.