Every animate or inanimate structure responds to some chord
or note of music, called, I believe, the dominant. We have
all felt some building vibrate in unison with the pulsation
of some note of a musical instrument; we have felt “creepy”
shivers run through us as some musical chord is sounded. It
is well known that animals are strangely affected by certain
harmonies. Some day, when civilization has advanced, I believe
that these evidences of psychological structure will be better
understood. It will be recognized that vice and virtue are in
accord with different harmonies, and yield to the power of
different dominants; and, when once the classification is made,
and the disclosures of the dominant understood, then the extent
and influence of the dominant will be a psychological test to
define the character and ruling passions of men’s nature, and to
decide the fitness of men for the various pursuits of life, and
even for life itself. (Text.)--ARTHUR DUDLEY VINTON,
_American Magazine_.
(813)
=Dominion of Man=--See MASTERY OF NATURE.
=Doors, Opening Human=--See RECEPTIVENESS.