The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the ef…

Thomas Carlyle
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that! ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1846). On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions, p.74
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