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For instance take the following question: “What is the finest form of fruit? Is
it not that which is best?” This will be admitted.
“What of the horse? What is the finest? Is it not
that which is the best?” Several more questions
of the same kind follow. Last comes the question
for the sake of which all the others were put:
“What of man? Is not he the finest type who is
best?” The answer can only be in the affirmative.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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