Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associate…

John Herschel
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place. ✨ John Herschel (2014). Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, p.8, Cambridge University Press
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