Jack Watson War
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first heard Jul 2026
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On the other hand, I can see nothing but ruin, moral and physical in the dissipations of the ballroom, which have despoiled thousands of young men and women of all that gives dignity to character or usefulness to life.
Dancing has been styled the graceful movement of the body adjusted by art to the measures or tune of instruments or of the voice.
All nations have danced, the ancients thought that Pollocks and Castor at first taught the practice to the Lacedemonians, but whatever be its origin, all times have adopted it.
In other days there were feastal dances and funeral dances, and military dances, and mediatorial dances, and Bacchanalian dances.
Queens and lords have swayed to and fro in their gardens, and the rough men of the backwoods in this way have roused up the echo of the forest.
There seems to be something in lively and coherent sounds to evoke the movement of hand and foot, whether cultured or uncultured.
Men passing the street unconsciously keep step to the music of the band, and Christians in church unconsciously find themselves keeping time with their feet.
while their soul is uplifted by some great harmony.
Not only is this true in cultured life, but the red men of Oregon have their scalp dances, and green corn dances, and war dances.
It is therefore no abstract question that you ask me, is it right to dance?
The ancient fathers, aroused by the indecent dances of those days, gave emphatic evidence against any participation in the dance.
Saint Chrysostom says the feet were not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.
One of the dogmas of the ancient church reads A dance is the devil's possession, and he that entereth into a dance entereth into his possession.
The devil is the gate to the middle and to the end of the dance.
As many passes as a man makes in dancing, so many passes doth he make to hell.
Elsewhere these old dogmas declare, the woman that singeth in the dance is the princess of the devil, and those that answer are his clerks, and the beholders are his friends, and the music are his bellows, and the fiddlers are the ministers of the devil, and
For as when hogs are strayed, if the hogs herd call one, all assemble together, so the devil calleth one woman to sing in the dance, or to play on some instrument, and presently all the dancers gather together.
This wholesale and indiscriminate denunciation grew out of the utter dissoluteness of those ancient plays which
So great at one time was the offence to all decency that the Roman Senate decreed the expulsion of all dancers and dancing masters from Rome.
Yet we are not to discuss the customs of that day, but the customs of the present.
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