The Green Book: Part Three

Chapter Nine

         MELODIES AND ARTS


  Man is still backward because he is
unable to speak one common language.
Until he attains this human aspiration,
which seems impossible, the express-
ion of joy and sorrow, what is good and
bad, beauty and ugliness, comfort and
misery, mortality and eternity, love
and hatred, the description of colours,
sentiments, tastes and moods --  all
will be according to the language each
people speaks automatically. Be-
haviour itself will remain based on the

reaction produced by the feeling the
language creates in the speaker's
mind.
  Learning one language, whatever it
may be, is not the solution for the time
being. It is a problem that will inevit-
ably remain without solution until the
process of the unification of languages
has passed through various genera-
tions and epochs, provided that the
hereditary factor comes to an end in
those generations through the passage
of enough time. For the sentiment,
taste and mood of the forefathers and

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fathers form those of sons and grand-
sons. If those forefathers spoke various
languages and the grandsons speak
one language, the grandsons will not
necessarily share a common taste by
virtue of speaking one language. Such
a common taste can only be achieved
when the new language imparts the

taste and the sense which are transmit-
ted by inheritance from one generation
to another.
  If a group of people wear white
clothes in mourning and another group

put on black ones, the sentiment of
each group will be adjusted according
to these two colours, i.e. one group
hates the black colour while the other
one likes it, and vice versa. Such a
sentiment leaves its physical effect on
the cells as well as on the genes in the
body. This adaptation will be transmit-
ted by inheritance. The inheritor auto-
matically hates the colour hated by the
legator as a result of inheriting the
sentiment of his legator. Consequently,
people are only harmonious with their
own arts and heritages. They are not
harmonious with the arts of others
because of heredity, even though those

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people, who differ in heritage, speak
one common language.
  Such a difference emerges between
the groups of one people even if it is on
a small scale.
  To learn one language is not a prob-
lem and to understand others' arts as a
result of learning their language is also
not a problem. The problem is the
impossibility of a real intuitional adap-
tation to the language of others.
  This will remain impossible until the
effect of heredity, which is transmitted
in the human body, comes to an end.
Mankind is really still backward be-
cause man does not speak with his
brother one common language which is
inherited and not learned. However, it
is only a matter of time for mankind to
achieve that goal unless civilization
should relapse.

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