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And yet, since intelligence commands the
province of speaking and deliberating, and philosophy confers facility in each
of these, what reason can there be why we should refuse to get a firm grasp of
this study, through which we shall become masters of both alike? Because life
may then too be expected to make a great advance for us when we reach out for
the things of supreme importance and find ourselves able to secure by rule and
precept such as can be taught and the rest by practice and habituation.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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