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tSundle^ °f t^eed^. 
One of a large family of plants, mostly aquatic plants, being chiefly 
large grasses, with hollow, jointed stems, such as the common reed (Phrag- 
mites communis), the bamboo, etc. 
Music. 
“The man that hath no music in himself, 
Uor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, 
Is fit for treason, strategems and spoils; 
The motions of his spirit are dull as night. 
And his affections dark as Erebus: 
Let no such man be trusted.” 
—Shale esp ear e. 
S IJSIC is one of the most refined of natural enjoyments. The pleas¬ 
ures of the taste are gross, the pleasures of the eye are dangerous; 
whereas in the pleasures of the ear, the delight of listening, for instance, 
to chaste strains of sweet song, is at once most elevating, most entrancing, 
and the least dangerous of all the pleasures of sense. You may fully 
enjoy the pleasures of virtuous* music without sensuality—it is scarcely 
capable of exciting any undue emotions of the heart or temptations of the 
mind; though, so imperfect are we, that one must beware of the effects of 
the reaction, when the notes of harmony have died away. 
Hay, more—we know from the Scriptures, that music, that song, is 
*It must be noted, as even the ancient pagans well knew, that there is a vicious music, 
capable of exciting the basest passions of our fallen nature, and alas ! composed with that 
criminal intent.—It were the sheerest sophistry or the most stupid ignorance of human history 
and human nature, to affirm that music cannot but be innocent.It should be 
added that while all the Fine Arts bestow a highly ennobling culture, all those arts and all 
that culture may not deter one from lapsing most brutishly, as shocking experience too plainly 
attests. 
