[40]
Substance is dealt with by conjecture: for in enquiring into anything, we ask
whether it has been done, is being done, or is likely
to be done, and sometimes also consider its intention:
this method is preferable to that adopted by those
who style the conjectural basis a basis of fact, as
though we only enquired into the past and what has
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actually been done.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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