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So far we have been dealing entirely with
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admitted facts. Let us now return to the claimant.
Unless he is hopelessly unintelligent, surely the
following argument will suggest itself:—“If the law
bars the way, there is no ground for action and the
trial becomes a farce. But it is beyond question that
the law exists and that the uneducated son did
commit the offence for which it enacts a punishment.” What then shall we say? “I had no
education.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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