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The very exercises and tolls which he undergoes are intended to

stimulate the spirited element of his nature, and not to increase

his strength; he will not, like common athletes, use exercise and

regimen to develope his muscles.

Very right, he said.

Neither are the two arts of music and gymnastic really designed,

as is often supposed, the one for the training of the soul, the

other for the training of the body.

What then is the real object of them?

I believe, I said, that the teachers of both have in view chiefly

the improvement of the soul.

How can that be? he asked.

Did you never observe, I said, the effect on the mind itself of

exclusive devotion to gymnastic, or the opposite effect of an

exclusive devotion to music?

In what way shown? he said.

The one producing a temper of hardness and ferocity, the other of

softness and effeminacy, I replied.