Note 26 — Chapter VI

The physical aspect is, of course, of incalculable importance. My only reason for ignoring it is that I am not competent to deal with it. The æsthetic aspect is also of incalculable importance; but I know so little about music or art, that I must limit my treatment of this aspect to pointing out that until the musical and artistic instincts of the masses are systematically trained in our elementary schools, through the medium of free self-expression on the part of the children, we shall have neither a national music nor a national art.