Excerpt from Juvenile Lyre, or Hymns and Songs, Religious, Moral, and Cheerful, Set to Appropriate Music: For the Use of Primary and Common Schools IT has been almost universally believed, that Providence has distributed the peculiar powers necessary for the suc cessful cultivation of the art of singing, with a hand so very unequal, that the few who are favored, become musicians Without difficulty, and almost without instruction or effort, while to the vast majority the attainment of any valuable degree of musical skill is almost entirely hopeless. In this supposed decision of Providence, mankind have generally acquiesced, and have allowed this art to remain solely in the possession of the few, not because they have regarded it as of little value, but because they have considered its attainment impracticable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.