Arthur Conan Doyle. A study in scarlet (№ 195297)

Remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that mankind has learned to create music and enjoy it much earlier than acquired the ability to speak. Maybe that is why we so deeply care about music. Our souls preserved a vague memory of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.
(Remember what Darwin says about music? He argues that the ability to create it and enjoy it appeared in people long before they gained the gift of speech. Perhaps that is why it so deeply concerns us. Our souls are still kept vague memories of those misty centuries when the world was still very young.)