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What is important is to define the problem clearly, whence it follows that progress consists not seldom in undoing what has been done. Advocacy always supposes a petitio principii, and its arguments are ad probandum. And theology that pretends to be rational is nothing but advocacy.
When I sent him Sombre Lives, he wrote me an unending letter in which he attempted to convince me that I ought to append a lesson or moral, to every tale. If I did not wish to write them, he offered to do it himself. Silverio thought that literature was not to be composed like history, according to Quintilian's definition, ad narrandum, but ad probandum.
"Vulgus interdum," says Cicero, "non probandum oratorem probat, sed probat sine comparatione, cùm
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