The Republic, by Plato. Part III.
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The Principles of Music and Gymnastics
The regulations which we are prescribing, my good out of mantis, are not, as might be supposed, a number of great principles, but trifles all. If our citizens are well educated and grow into sensible men, they will easily see their way through all these,. Such, for example, as marriage, the possession of women and the procreation of children. That will be the best way of settling them. Also, I said, the state, if once started well, moves with accumulating force like a wheel. When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them.
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