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The blending together without any mutual injuriousness (of the sentiments and the airs on the different instruments)
forms the essence of music;
and the exhilaration of joy and the glow of affection
are its business.
Exactitude and correctness, without any inflection or deviation,
form the substance of ceremonies,
while gravity, respectfulness, and a humble consideration
are the rules for their discharge.
As to the employment of instruments of metal and stone in connexion with these ceremonies and this music,
the manifestation of them by the voice and its modulations,
the use of them in the ancestral temple, and at the altars to the spirits of the land and grain,
and in sacrificing to (the spirits of) the hills and streams, and to the general spiritual agencies (in nature)
- these are (external demonstrations), natural even to the people.


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