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that we
seek.” “No.” “Is it, then, music, so far
as we have already described it?1”
“Nay, that,” he said, “was the counterpart of
gymnastics, if you remember. It educated the guardians through habits, imparting
by the melody a certain harmony of spirit that is not science,2 and by the rhythm measure and grace, and also
qualities akin to these in the words of tales that are fables and those that are
more nearly true. But it included no study that tended to any such good 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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