Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.

She did not belong either to that gentler but more rhapsodic band who seek to extract strange worshipful music from the male, the xylorimbists or tympanists or flute players.

When we examine common words, we find that, broadly speaking, proper names stand for particulars, while other substantives, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs stand for universals.

Once it had become inevitable to proceed on the lines of practically music States, that is, of States built on high-strung individuals, and not on organisations such as a tribe, a clan, a gens, a nation; nor on the basis of an indefinite hunger for more land; once this, the central and most essential trait of the Greeks, had become evident as well as imperative, the Greeks, while not entirely undoing the archaic remains of gentilician institutions, yet so reduced and impoverished them as to make them practically unimportant.