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Some arts, however, are based on examination, that is to say on the knowledge and proper
appreciation of things, as for instance astronomy,
[p. 347]
which demands no action, but is content to understand
the subject of its study: such arts are called theoretical.
Others again are concerned with action: this is their
end, which is realised in action, so that, the action
once performed, nothing more remains to do: these
arts we style practical, and dancing will provide us
with an example.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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