[4]
On
tile other hand, the question more frequently turns
on intention. Take the law1 “Let a hero choose what
reward he will.” I deny that he is entitled to receive
whatever he chooses. I cannot put forward any
formal demurrer, but none the less I use the intention as against the letter of the law just as I should
use a demurrer. In both cases the basis is the same.
1 i.e. an imaginary law of the schools of rhetoric.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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