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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 14932 |
| QUOTATION: | The Americans ... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), U.S. novelist. “On Civilization,” The American Democrat (1838). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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