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For conjecture has often to introduce
proofs from without and uses arguments drawn from
the actual subject matter, whereas the real task of
eloquence is to demonstrate quality: there lies its
kingdom, there its power, and there its unique
victory.
Verginius includes under quality cases concerned
with disinheritance, lunacy, cruelty to a wife, and
claims of female orphans to marry relatives. The
questions thus involved are, it is true, frequently questions of quality, while some writers style them questions of moral obligation.
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