[7]
which
demands that after beginning with this question he
should then proceed to introduce the subsidiary
questions, thereby making the structure of his speech
[p. 167]
as regular as that of the human body, of which, for
example, the hand is a part, while the fingers are
parts of the hand, and the joints of the fingers.1 It
is precisely this method of arrangement which it is
impossible to demonstrate except with reference to
some definite and specific case.
1 fecerit and struxerit are both negatived by the preceding non. It is impossible to reproduce the conciseness of the original.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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