The Introduction Of A New Kind Of Music Must Be Shunned As Imperiling The Whole State, For Styles Of Music Are Never Disturbed Without Affecting The Most Important Political Institutions.

The Introduction Of A New Kind Of Music Must Be Shunned As Imperiling The Whole State, For Styles Of Music Are Never Disturbed Without Affecting The Most Important Political Institutions.

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The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling
the whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without
affecting the most important political institutions. ... The new
style, gradually gaining a lodgement, quitely insinuates itself into
manners and customs, and from it ... goes on to attack laws and
constitutions, displaying the utmost impudence, until it ends by
overturning everything.
-- Plato, "Republic", 370 B.C.

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