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In music, its fundamental canons have been thrown aside and discord has been substituted for harmony as its ideal.
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Beck critiques the departure from harmony in music, reflecting broader societal changes.
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The American Constitution has been the classic model for the federated State.
Again the words of Washington suggest themselves: "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?
The consequence is that again and again we are running the risk of perpetrating the most grotesque errors of judgment, of committing the most serious political blunders, in defiance of American public opinion.
Man has danced upon the verge of a social abyss, and, as previously suggested, the dancing has, both in form and in accompanying music, lost its former grace and reverted to the primitive forms of crude vulgarity.
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