Show science cant explain transmission of genius the question of heredity influence is difficult to determine although in the matter of musicians it seeni 4 strong although Beet hovens grand father a musician died when tile the lad was only four years old od the gr great eat composer always remembered him and said that his life had been influenced by the old music master ills his own futher father was not a musician beethoven beg bedah his studies at the age of five years sir arthur suella sullivans s father was a bandmaster in the army and at the age of ten tell years young arthur could play every instrument in hl lila fathers father bard the parents parent of other composers 1 1 were musical in other lines there seenia to he be no hereditary connection child prodigies seem to come as theold the old poem has it out of t the he nowhere into the here however it ls Is known that generations may pass and the talent of a forbear reappear in a child after having lain dormant for a century or more exchange I 1 |