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be proved in
a very few words. For if Cleanthes1 definition be
accepted that “Art is a power reaching its ends by a
definite path, that is, by ordered methods,” no one
can doubt that there is such method and order in
good speaking: while if, on the other hand, we accept
the definition which meets with almost universal
approval that art consists in perceptions agreeing
and cooperating to the achievement of some useful
end, we shall be able to show that rhetoric lacks none
of these characteristics.
1 Fr. 790.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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