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The same method may be employed
in obscure or complicated cases, not merely to make
the case clearer, but sometimes also to make it more
moving. This effect will be produced, if we at once
support our pleading with some such words as the
following: “It is expressly stated in the law that
for any foreigner who goes up on to the wall the
penalty is death. You are undoubtedly a foreigner,
and there is no question but that you went up on to
the wall. The conclusion is that you must submit
to the penalty.” For this proposition forces a confession upon our opponent and to a certain extent
accelerates the decision of the court. It does more
than indicate the question, it contributes to its
solution.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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