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I make these remarks, not because I think that a
knowledge of the “places”1 from which arguments
may be derived is useless (had I thought so, I
should have passed them by)but to prevent those
who have learnt these rules from neglecting
other considerations and regarding themselves as
having a perfect and absolute knowledge of the
whole subject, and to make them realise that,
unless they acquire a thorough knowledge of the
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remaining points which I am about to discuss, they
will be the possessors of what I can only call a dumb
science.
1 See V. x. 20.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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