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or brave, if
he has never purged his soul of the fears of pain, death
and superstition? or just, it he has never, in language
approaching that of philosophy, discussed the nature
of virtue and justice, or of the laws that have been
given to mankind by nature or established among
individual peoples and nations? What a contempt
it argues for such themes to regard them as being
so easy of comprehension!
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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