But music has no pretensions, in the opinion of the Quakers, to the production of such an end.

Polybius, indeed relates, that he could give no solid reason, why one tribe of the Arcadians should have been so civilized, and the others so barbarous, but that the former were fond, and the latter were ignorant of music.

But the Quakers would argue, that if music had any effect in the civilization, this effect would be seen in the manners, and not in the morals of mankind.

Musical Italians are esteemed a soft and effeminate, but they are generally reputed a depraved people.

Music, in short, though it breathes soft influences, cannot yet breathe morality into the mind.