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it is impossible that they should grow up to be men of
serious temper and lawful spirit.” “Of
course,” he said. “And so we may reason that when
children in their earliest play are imbued with the spirit of law and order
through their music, the opposite of the former supposition
happens—this spirit waits upon them in all things and fosters
their growth, and restores and sets up again whatever was overthrown in the
other1 type of state.” “True,
indeed,” he said. “Then such men rediscover for
themselves those seemingly trifling conventions which their predecessors
abolished altogether.” “Of what sort?”
“Such things as
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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