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I am well aware that there are certain writers
who would absolutely bar all study of artistic structure and contend that language as it chances to
present itself in the rough is more natural and even
more manly. If by this they mean that only that
is natural which originated with nature and has
never received any subsequent cultivation, there is
an end to the whole art of oratory.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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