[42]
It certainly is not permissible to make
the assertion that it is not through acquired knowledge that we surpass one
another in sound judgement; for, speaking generally, all natural ability is
improved by the addition of the appropriate education,1 and this is
especially true of talents which at the outset are inherently superior to the
rest, because the one kind is capable only of improving upon itself while the
other may also surpass the rest.
1 Blass compares Isoc. 15.189-192, with which may be compared in turn Cicero Pro Archia 7.15.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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