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The story of the violin, 1904
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1CHAPTER IV.
3THE OLD NATIONS.
5Consider other nations—the Egyptians, who built up their marvellous civilisation seemingly independent of outside influence; or the Greeks, who to a large extent focussed the achievements of older civilisations, and reflected them through the bright mirror of their own national individuality—does it seem credible that they should not have found out even the principle of friction of the string for themselves, or that it should not have been transmitted to them somehow or other, at some time or other, from the country where it was known?
7India, after she had once, against her will, entered the ring of historical nations, was involved in many wars. Assyrians (already 1200 B.C.), Persians, Greeks conquered her and enriched themselves with her treasures. She entertained commercial relations with other parts—Phoenicia, Arabia—and was still more sought by them as a kind of earthly paradise and wonderland. Should not also the knowledge of the bow, or bowed instruments, have found its way across her borders? Surely. Here, in our opinion, seems to lie the real reason for the absence of all historical
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