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Since, however, general questions are always
more important than special (for the particular is
contained in the universal, while the universal is
never to be regarded as something superimposed on
the particular), everyone will readily admit that the
studies of which we are speaking are pre-eminently
concerned with general questions.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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