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However, touching the subject of philosophy, some future
occasion will afford me more suitable opportunities to review carefully the
particulars, but the outlines of it nothing will prevent me from running over at
once. This one point, therefore, you must grasp clearly at the outset, that all
education consists in understanding something and then putting it into
practice,1 and this is even more true of philosophy than of
any other studies, for the synthesis of learning and practice is likely to be
more perfect in proportion as the instructors are more clear on this point.
1 This idea recurs in Dem. 61.41 and Dem. 61.47.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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