Verify Citation - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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“Most men nowadays,” he says, “take part in music for the sake of the pleasure it gives; but originally it was included in education on the ground that our own nature itself… wants to be able not merely to work properly but also to be at leisure in the right way.”
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