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and
in all similar craftsmanship1—weaving is full of
them and embroidery and architecture and likewise the manufacture of
household furnishings and thereto the natural bodies of animals and plants
as well. For in all these there is grace or gracelessness. And gracelessness
and evil rhythm and disharmony are akin to evil speaking and the evil temper
but the opposites are the symbols and the kin of the opposites, the sober
and good disposition.” “Entirely so,” he said.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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