. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . usted, turned to the proprietor of the house andsaid, Why dont you allow your servants to do this for you?You are also willing to admit that whatever be your idea ofthe old-fashioned square dance, and of many of the pro-cessional romps, in which I can see no evil, the round danceis administrative of evil and ought to be driven out of allrespectable circles. I am by natural temperament and reli-gious theory opposed to the position taken by all those whoare horified at playfulness on the part of the y
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . usted, turned to the proprietor of the house andsaid, Why dont you allow your servants to do this for you?You are also willing to admit that whatever be your idea ofthe old-fashioned square dance, and of many of the pro-cessional romps, in which I can see no evil, the round danceis administrative of evil and ought to be driven out of allrespectable circles. I am by natural temperament and reli-gious theory opposed to the position taken by all those whoare horified at playfulness on the part of the young, and whothink that all questions are decided—questions of decencyand morals—by the jjosition of the feet, while, on the otherhand, I can see nothing but ruin, temporal and eternal, for (224) DANCING. 225 those who go into the dissipations of social life, dissipationswhich have already despoiled thousands of young men andyoung women of all that is nohle and useful in life. Dancing is the graceful motion of the body adjusted byart to the sound and measures of musical instrument or of. DANCING THE QUADEILLE. the human voice. All nations have danced. The ancientsthought that Castor and Pollux taught the art to the Lace-daemonians. But whoever started it, all climes have adoptedit. In ancient times they had the festal dance, the militarydance, the mediatorial dance, the bacchanalian dance, andqueens and lords swayed to and fro in the gardens, and therough backwoodsman, with this exercise awakened the echoof the forest. There is something in the sound of lively 226 DANCING. music to evoke the movement of the hand and foot, whethercultured or uncultured. Passing down the street we uncon-sciously keep step to the sound of the brass band, while the
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