For the reader must be aware that, while the Quakers hold such sentiments, they can never patronise such songs; and that if those who are taught or allowed to sing, generally lay hold of all the songs that come into their way, that is, promiscuously and without selection.

The Quakers will have a strong ground as a Christian society, or as a society, who hold it necessary to be watchful over their words as well as their actions, for the rejection of vocal music.
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IV.
_The preceding are the arguments of the early Quakers--new state of music has produced new ones--instrumental now censurable for a waste of time--for leading into company--for its connection with vocal_.
The arguments which have hitherto appeared against the admission of music into education, are those which were nearly coeval with the society itself.

The incapability of music to answer moral ends, the sensuality of the gratification, the impediments it might throw in the way of religious retirement, the impurity it might convey to the mind, were in the mouths of the early Quakers.

Music at that time was principally in the hands of those, who made a livelihood of the art.
Those who followed it as an accomplishment, or a recreation, were few and these followed it with moderation.