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Sunday, June 29, 2008

The Republic - pg. 102

"...someone might perchance suppose the poet means not
new songs, but a new way of song, and praises that. Such
a saying shouldn't be praised, nor should this one be taken
in that sense. For they must beware of change to a
strange form of music, taking it to be a danger to the
whole. For never are the ways of music moved without the
greatest political laws being moved, ..."

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