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‘Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.’ For Confucius, music was a metaphor of a harmonious society, and its performance could actually help bring that better society about.
Confucius conceived of it was that he had an idea that men could best be governed by virtue, by benevolence, by righteousness; and if the leader exemplified those virtues, then so would his people.
