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For when the
philosophers describe the ideal sage who is to be
consummate in all knowledge and a very god incarnate, as they say, they would have him receive
instruction not merely in the knowledge of things
human and divine, but would also lead him through
a course of subjects, which in themselves are comparatively trivial, as for instance the elaborate
subtleties of formal logic: not that acquaintance
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with the so called “horn”1 or “crocodile”2 problems
can make a man wise, but because it is important that he should never trip even in the
smallest trifles.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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