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more recent date. It is unquestionable that both Moses 
and his sister employed poetry to sing the praises of the 
Lord, after the passage of the Red Sea. Plato mentions 
the constant tradition of the Egyptians concerning the 
verses they sang at several festivals, and which they re- 
ferred to Isis : Arrian relates the most antient hymns 
which were in use among the Indians : and Du Halde 
records those which are still celebrated in Chinaj from the 
most remote antiquity. 
"In all these songs, gesticulation and pantomime was 
not forgotten. The body, by degrees, caught a species of 
agitation; the arms began to expand, the feet to move, 
the visage to express a higher degree of animation ; and 
the whole frame, by different positions and movements, 
followed the sound which affected the ear. Thus singing, 
which in itself is but an expression of feeling or sensibility, 
has produced another expression or mode no less affecting, 
nor less expressive, namely, dancing. For this reason, we 
find sacred dancing to have been the most antient of all 
dancing ; just as sacred music and poetry have been the 
first expressions of the human heart. Our gratitude 
towards the Supreme Being has been the common cause 
of them all. 
" Of this species of pantomime, the Egyptians, perhaps 
the Indians, have been the inventors. According to Du 
Halde, the Chinese still retain the custom, which they have 
received from the most remote antiquity. You must well 
remember (what I wish much to see) the Dancing-girls of 
the East, and the Egyptian Almehs. The dances which 
they perform, even to our days, if we may believe Philo- 
itratus, have been invented by Comus; whilst, according to 
Diodorus, they were invented hy Terpsichore. Be it as it will. 
