throw off their guard in imagining that nobody could see them through the veil of their music.)
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IAnother perspective of feeling.–now we jabber about the Greeks! What do we understand of their art, the soul of which is the passion for naked male beauty! Only from that point of view they appre- ciated female beauty. Thus they had a perspective thoroughly different from ours. The case was similar with regard to their love for womankind. Their worship was of a different taste, and so was their contempt.
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Fool for the modern man.–He has learnt to digest many things, nay, almost everything–it is his ambition to do so: but he would really be of a higher order if he were less proficient in this art; homopamphagus is not the finest of human species. We live between a past which had a mudder and more stubborn taste than we have, and a future which perlaps may have a more select taste—we halt too much midway.
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Tragerly and music.–Men of a fundamentally warlike disposition, such as were the Greeks in the time of Æschylus, are not easily tonehod, and when once pity overcomes their hard natures it seizes them like a whirl-
