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further shows that
definition is assisted by division, which he distinguishes from partition, making the latter the
dissection of a whole into its parts and the former
the division of a genus into its forms or species. The
number of parts he regards as being uncertain, as for
instance the elements of which a state consists; the
forms or species are, however, certain, as for instance
the number of forms of government, which we are
told are three, democracy, oligarchy, and monarchy.
It is true that he does not use these illustrations,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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