ABSTRACT

We can develop a musical analogy that describes the world as one great musical instrument with three and a half billion notes on it; notes of different colors, black and white, or ‘cracked’; high, low and middle ranges. Everybody is in the world. And the music that the worldminded person plays uses all the notes! If the children say to their teacher, ‘My, the music you play uses all the notes’!; then they will get the message of worldmindedness. But if the teacher plays up in the treble cleft all the time, or plays just down in the bass, she and her students do not have the chance to hear what the symphony is all about — the symphony of the oneness of humanity. (King, 1971, p. 4)