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For there we have to persuade the
judge, who, even though he may be tied and bound
with our words, will still dissent in silence, unless he
is brought really into touch with the actual facts.
And what need has a pleader for such precision of
definition? Even if I do not say that man is an
animal, mortal and rational, surely I shall still be
able, by setting forth the numerous properties of his
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body and mind in more general terms, to distinguish
him from gods or dumb beasts.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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