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But no treatise has yet been
composed on delivery, since the matter of style itself only lately came into
notice;
and rightly considered
it is thought vulgar.1
But since the whole business of Rhetoric is to influence opinion,2 we must pay attention to it, not as being
right, but necessary; for, as a matter of right, one should aim at nothing more
in a speech than how to avoid exciting pain or pleasure. For justice should
consist in fighting the case with the facts alone, so that everything else that
is beside demonstration is superfluous; nevertheless, as we have just said, it
is of great importance owing to the corruption of the hearer.
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Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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