baccanalian

Updated: June 29, 2025

Vocal music forbidden singing in itself no more immoral than reading but as vocal music articulates ideas, it may convey poison to the mind some ideas in songs contrary to Quaker notions of morality as in hunting songs or in baccanalian or in martial youth make no selection but learn off that fall in their way.

Thomas Clarkson - A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 : Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends