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These critics show an insufficient appreciation of the capacities of the human mind, which
is so swift and nimble and versatile, that it cannot
be restricted to doing one thing only, but insists on
devoting its attention to several different subjects not
merely in one day, but actually at one and the
same time.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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