An idea from Laws

Children cannot keep still. Animals leap too, but only humans feel order in movement and sound, which is rhythm and harmony, the gods’ gift. So the uneducated person is the one never trained in a chorus, and the educated can sing and dance well, and sing what is good.

From Laws by Plato

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