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attempt to compose dithyrambic poetry adapted to the severe
Dorian music.
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is abruptly expressed and possibly something map be omitted.
The general meaning is ' that if there be a harmony suited to tile
young it must be tested by the three principles of education; the
mean, the possible, the becoming.'
- JVithout assuming that Aristotle wrote a complete treatise on
the subject of education, in which he includes gymnastic, music,
drawing, and literature (cp. c. 3. 5 I), it is hard to imagine that, if
the work had received from his hands its present form, he nouiil
11,ive broken off in this abrupt manner.
