Note 241 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY (continued 2)

“Arbeit und Rhythmus,” reprinted from the Abhandlungen d. kgl. sächsischen Gesellschaft d. Wissenschaften, philol. histor. Classe, XVII. 5, Leipzig, 1896. According to Groos, Spiele der Menschen, pp. 57 ff., some of these statements have been modified. In the second edition of the Entstehung der Volkswirthschaft, pp. 32 f., a book which the present writer could not consult, Bücher concedes the priority of play, and sees in it the starting-point of labour. This, however, does not change the validity of Bücher’s main argument for the connection of labour and rhythm, so far as they concern the beginnings of poetry.