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What we want is that our hymn-books should contain a collection of the best ecclesiastical and sacred hymn-melodies, and _nothing but these_, instead of having but a modicum of these, for the most part mauled and illset, among a crowd of contributions of an altogether inferior kind; the whole collection being often such that if an ill-natured critic were to assert that the compilers had degraded and limited the old music in order to set off their own, it would be difficult to meet him with a logical refutation.

A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing Robert Seymour Bridges 1887