[22]
But although partition is neither always necessary
nor useful, it will, if judiciously employed, greatly
[p. 149]
add to the lucidity and grace of our speech. For
it not only makes our arguments clearer by isolating
the points from the crowd in which they would
otherwise be lost and placing them before the
eyes of the judge, but relieves his attention by
assigning a definite limit to certain parts of our
speech, just as our fatigue upon a journey is relieved
by reading the distances on the milestones which we
pass.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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