Show socrates boosts music the greeks were wise in regard to the educative value of music socrates for example takes high ground in sit ing that music ts Is a gift of the gods to men and women and was never intended os as the many foolishly and blas bias phe suppose merely to give in an idle pleasure he also traces most suggestively the connection between license in music and anarchy in the state training to la a more potent instrument than arty any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul on which they mightily fasten imparting grace and making the soul of him who Is rightly educated graceful while he praises it into his soul and becomes noble and good he be will justly blame and hate the bad |