Excerpt from Ventures in Worlds<br><br>The genius of the age is the genius of matter, of the triumph of things. There is Romanism in it and skyscrapers and the survival-of - the fittest. Music is perfectly adapted as an art medium to the genius of this age, and it exposes as nothing else the modern soul of man in its passionate egoism, its mystic cruelty, its ruth less hunger for vitality and change, its cry for life, in short.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.