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Nor is it without good
reason that arrangement is treated as the second of
the five departments of oratory,1 since without it the
first is useless. For the fact that all the limbs of a
statue have been cast does not make it a statue: they
must be put together; and if you were to interchange some one portion of our bodies or of those
of other animals with another, although the body
would be in possession of all the same members
[p. 5]
as before, you would none the less have produced
a monster. Again even a slight dislocation will
deprive a limb of its previous use and vigour, and
disorder in the ranks will impede the movements of an army.
1 cp. vi. iv. 1. Invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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