'True.' Then, if we know what is good and bad in song and dance, we shall know what education is?
'Very true.' Let us now consider the beauty of figure, melody, song, and dance.

Will the same figures or sounds be equally well adapted to the manly and the cowardly when they are in trouble?
'How can they be, when the very colours of their faces are different ?' Figures and melodies have a rhythm and harmony which are adapted to the expression of different feelings (I may remark, by the way, that the term 'colour,' which is a favourite word of music-masters, is not really applicable to music).

And one class of harmonies is akin to courage and all virtue, the other to cowardice and all vice.

'We agree.' And do all men equally like all dances?
'Far otherwise.' Do some figures, then, appear to be beautiful which are not?
For no one will admit that the forms of vice are more beautiful than the forms of virtue, or that he prefers the first kind to the second.

And yet most persons say that the merit of music is to give pleasure.