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Arcadia (Greece) (search for this): book 4, chapter 21
Why the Ancient Arcadians Turned to Music
Now the object of the ancient Arcadians in introducing
The object of the musical training of the Arcadians.
these customs was not, as I think, the gratification of luxury and extravagance. They
saw that Arcadia was a nation of workers;
that the life of the people was laborious and hard; and
that, as a natural consequence of the coldness and gloom
which were the prevailing features of a great part of the
country, the general character of the people was r souls by the civilising and softening
influence of such culture. The people of Cynaetha entirely
neglected these things, although they needed them more than
any one else, because their climate and country is by far the
most unfavourable in all Arcadia; and on the contrary gave
their whole minds to mutual animosities and contentions. They
in consequence became finally so brutalised, that no Greek city
has ever witnessed a longer series of the most atrocious crimes.
I will give one instance of