[9]
Never in
my opinion would the founders of cities have induced their unsettled multitudes to form communities had they not moved them by the magic of their
eloquence: never without the highest gifts of oratory
[p. 323]
would the great legislators have constrained mankind to submit themselves to the yoke of law.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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