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Mufick of Drums and Trumpets, is apt to produce Cou- 
rage and Fiercenefs in Martial Minds; and more or left 
according to the Degrees of Roughnefs. And fweerer 
Sounds of more fedate Mufick, are apt to excite fofter 
Paffions, and* of differest Kinds and Degrees, according 
to the Slownefs or Swiftnefs, Loudnels or Calmnefs, 
Acutenefs or Gravity, and the various Meafures and 
Mixtures of fuch Mufical Sounds. The Animal Spirits 
being apt to receive ImpreflTions anfwerable to thofefub- 
tile Motions, communicated to them from the Organs 
of Hearing. 
But the Qaeftionyou move is only of the Comparative 
Effects of Mufick reported to have been in the Days of old, 
beyond what appears upon that of later Ages. 
In anfwer to which, there are many things to be con- 
fidered : 
1. I take it for granted, That much of thofe Reports 
15 highly Hyperholkal, and next door to Fahulous ; ac- 
cording to the Humour of thofe Ages, termed by Hifto- 
rians, Tempus Mjthicum, (the Fabulous Age) for (whate- 
ver may be thought of Men, Beads and Birds, no Man- 
can think that the Trees and Stones did Dance after their 
Pipe. And even in more modeft Times, the Poetical 
Stories of Olynipus^ Atlas, and other Mountains, reach- 
ing up to Heaven, are much beyond what is now to be 
found in thofe Parts where they arc faid to have been ; 
and many Mountains now well known (as the Alps, the- 
Apennines, the Pike of Tenertff) are much higher than 
their Atlas or Olympm, And their Famed Tyler is but a 
Ditch compared with our Thames. And like Abate- 
ments we muft allow to the Hyperlolical Elogies of their 
Mufick. 
2. We muft confider, That Mufick (to any tolerable 
Degree) was then (if not a ATm, at leaft) a Rare Thing, 
'A';hich the Ruftick^, on whom it is reported to have ha.d 
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