Assertion: cicero | /r/CapableOf | give shape
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text: Cicero definitely values this system of rhetoric, and connects the ability to speak and persuade as “our greatest advantage over brute creation” and sees “the highest achievements of eloquence” as the “power…strong enough… to gather scattered humanity into one place, or lead it out of its brutish existence in the wilderness up to our present condition of civilization as men and as citizens, or, after the establishment of social communities, to give shape to laws, tribunals, and civic rights” (293-4).