The Republic, by Plato. Part II.
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Glaucon: We have no need of lamentation and strains of sorrow. And which are the harmonies expressive of sorrow? You are musical and can tell me. The Dorean and Fridgigan are the only ones which you have left. These two harmonies I ask you to leave the strain of necessity, the strain of courage, and the strain of temperance,. these I say leave. But what do you say to flute players who make complex scales or harmonized instruments? Would you admit them into our state when they reflect that the use of harmony is worse than all the stringed instruments put together? Glaucon says he will not allow such a pantomim
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