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 But more than this: It cultivates, sweetens and re6nes mans emo tional nature and brings him to juster appreciation of the true, the beautiful and the good whether in art or in nature. Nothing has more potent effect upon the mind, temper, behaviour and bodily habits of children than well conducted songs. Music directly develops the moral nature, without which man is but sordid clay; it is solace Tn solitude and an ornament and intro ducticn in society.
 Nothing will more effectually re fresh body of fatigued children than the singing of 3 hearty and beautiful song. Music is the uni- versal tongue, and by its use all the heterogeneous clements in our schools are brought to a common plane and then moulded into noble citizens.
 Knowledge alone by no means in- sures us high order of citizenship and it is incumbent upon those who control the children-the future cit izens O the Republic-to add b courses .of study any branch of learning that will lead to a larger and fuller appreciation of the real pleasures of life and a higher and nobler ideal of citizenship.
 The distinguished author of Music and Morals" speaks thus of the refining influence of music: "The future mission of music for the mil- lions is the discipline of the emotion. What is the ruin of art? III regu- lated emotion. What is the ruin of life? Again, ill-regulated emotion. What mars happiness2 What de- stroys manliness2 What sul:es womanhood? What checks enter prise? What spells success? Con- stantly the same ill-regulated emo ton. x There is cue thing more important than knowing self: it is to govern self. x People get drunk because they have noth- ing else to do; they beat their wives because their minds are narrow, their tastes brutal, their emotions, in a word, ill-regulated: they spend their wages because they have no self-control; they dawdle in public houses where money must be spelt, simply in the absence of all other resources; and they starye in winter because they have not acquired the habit of steady work, which is i'm possible without study and whole some recreation, or that steady thrift and self-control which is i'm possible apart from disciplined emotion. The question of music for the people will some day become a great government question. < There are millions whose only use of emotional life is base, undiscip- lined, and degraded. Pleasure with many means crime; restraint, the real handmaid of pleasure, is un- known; system, order, harmony in their feelings, habitf of seif-con trol, checking the impulses, moderating and economizing the feelings, guid- ing them to powerful purposes, wise ends and wholesome joys-of all this many are chiefly ignorant; yet I I I all this, music would nightly help to teach and give. If f
 When we hear music intelligently and sympathetically, its obvious that we are actually cultivating abstract habits ef mind, which may after ward be transferred as trained forces to the affairs of daily life. As the study of Euclid trains the mind in the abstract, so the study of mus.c trains the emotion in the abstract. If you want to touch and train this emotional life, music is your allspowerful ally"