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In his "Republic", Plato asks: -

"Ought we not to seek out artists who by the power of genius can trace out the nature of the fair and the graceful, that our youth, dwelling in a healthy region, may drink in food from every quarter, whence any emanation from noble works may strike upon their ear or their eye, like a gale wafting health from salubrious lands, -

and win them imperceptibly from their earliest childhood with resemblance, love, and harmony with the beauty of reason?" -