The Republic, by Plato. Part II.
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The Importance of Body Training
After music comes gymnastic, in which our youth are next to be trained. Gymnastic, as well as music, should begin in early years. The training in it should be careful and should continue through life. This much of music makes a fair ending for what should be the end of music if not the love of beauty. And this rule is to limit him in all his intercourse, and he is never to be seen going further,. or if he exceeds, he has to be deemed guilty of coarseness and bad taste.
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