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In brief therefore, a rational person will not blame
the sciences themselves, if any one make use of them amiss,
but will adjudge such a failing to be the error of those that
abuse them. So that whoever he be that shall give his
mind to the study of music in his youth, if he meet with a
musical education, proper for the forming and regulating
his inclinations, he will be sure to applaud and embrace
that which is noble and generous, and to rebuke and blame
the contrary, as well in other things as in what belongs to
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music. And by that means he will become clear from all
reproachful actions, for now having reaped the noblest
fruit of music, he may be of great use, not only to himself
but to the commonwealth; while music teaches him to abstain from every thing indecent both in word and deed, and
to observe decorum, temperance, and regularity.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 1.
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