History, and present

These words from the book "Civilization of Babylonian and Assyrian" make much sense: In studying the past, therefore, in reality studying ourselves, we are concerned with something that is not remote, but on the contrary with something that is quite close to us - with flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone.
The history is a chain, it is not unexpected that philosophers would look for the source of the right of the human spirit in this way. Emmm... How about music?