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Often appears with: the passions and the emotions · roman morals · justice as a virtue · custom and the manners of a people · campus martius · ancient greek education
Usually: argument (1) · wonder (1)
He contrasts ancient Greek education (gymnastics and music) with Roman education at the Campus Martius, arguing Romans’ morals were generally superior despite lacking Greek-style musical training.
an account of those institutions, to humanize the mind, to soften the temper, and to dispose it for performing all the social and moral duties of public and private life. In ancient Rome, the exercises of the Campus Martius answered the same purpose as those of the Gymnasium in ancient Greece, and they seem to have answered it equally well. But among the Romans there was nothing which corresponded to the musical edu…