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The following type
may be regarded as commonplace and useful only as
helping to create an impression of sincerity: “As
the soil is improved and rendered more fertile by
culture, so is the mind by education,” or “As
physicians amputate mortified limbs, so must we
lop away foul and dangerous criminals, even though
they be bound to us by ties of blood.” Far finer is
the following from Cicero's1 defence of Archias:
“Rock and deserts reply to the voice of man, savage
beasts are oft-times tamed by the power of music
and stay their onslaught,” and the rest.
1 Pro Arch. viii. 19.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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