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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
178
Dancing
is
an
exercise
which
has
been
practiced
by
mankind
from
the
most
remote
ages.
With
the
Egyptians,
Assyrians,
and
Persians,
the
founders
of
the
three
great
empires
of
the
ancient
world,
dancing
was
the
favorite
exercise
or
accomplishment,
and
the
practice
was
not
less
prevalent
among
their
successors
in
power
and
importance,
the
Greeks
and
Romans.
The
Jews,
also,
we
learn
from
Scripture,
were
strongly
attached
to
the
exercise
at
all
periods
of
their
history.
At
the
present
day,
almost
every
people
that
exist,
whether
barbarous
or
civilized,
has
its
own
form
of
dancing.
It
is
this
universality
of
the
exercise
that
makes
dancing
a
subject
of
importance.
Being
so
extensively
practiced,
it
must
be
the
instrument
either
of
good
or
evil
to
the
human
race.
It
is
one
of
the
most
healthful
and
elegant
amusements,
and
cannot
be
too
highly
recommended.
Among
a
rude
and
dissolute
people
it
may
degenerate
into
something
worthy
of
condemnation;
but
all
the
blessings
we
have
are
similarly
liable
to
abuse,
and
it
would
be
most
unjust
to
condemn
a
cheerful
domestic
amusement,
merely
because
it
has,
at
times,
been
degraded
by
people
of
low,
vulgar,
immoral
tastes.
By
all
physicians,
dancing,
when
pursued
in
moderation,
is
recommended
as
highly
conducive
to
bodily
health;
and
it
may
be
truly
said,
that,
allied
with
music,
nothing
is
more
conducive
to
mental
health,
more
calculated
to
drive
away
melancholy,
and
put
the
whole
temper
into
good
humor.
Dancing
is
the
poetry
of
motion.
It
must
be
performed
with
ease
and
grace,
and
always
with
a
perfect
regard
for
propriety
of
movement.
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