[86]
These four schemes or forms of action which I then
called general bases fall into two classes as I have
[p. 455]
shown,1 namely, the rational and the legal. The
rational is the simpler, as it involves nothing more
than the consideration of the nature of things. In
this connection, therefore, a mere mention of conjeclure, definition and quality will suffice.
1 ยง 67, and III. v. 4.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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