how you that it is _not_ to be considered as one of
those _minima_ which are out of the eye and consideration of
the law; _not_ a paltry excrescence of the state; _not_ a
mean dependent, who may be neglected with little damage and
provoked with little danger. It will prove that some degree
of care and caution is required in the handling such an
object; it will show that you ought not, in reason, to
trifle with so large a mass of the interests and feelings of
the human race. You could at no time do so without guilt;
and be assured you will not be able to do it long with
impunity."[36]

Examples.

A fifth method of expanding a topic is by means of illustrations and
examples. It is used largely in establishing or enforcing a
proposition. The author selects one example, or perhaps more than one,
to illustrate his proposition. Note the words that may introduce
specific instances: _for example, for instance, to illustrate, a case
in point,_ and so forth.

In the first of the following quotations, Cardinal Newman is showing
that simply to acquire is not true mental enlargement. The paragraph
is made up of a series of instances. The second paragraph is by
Macaulay.

"The _case is the same still more strikingly when_ the
persons in question are beyond dispute men of inferior
powers and deficient education. Perhaps they have been much
in foreign countries, and they receive, in a passive,
otiose, unfruitful way, the various facts which are forced
upon them there. Seafaring men, _for example,_ range from
one end of the earth to the other; but the multiplicity of
external objects which they have encountered forms no
symmetrical and consistent picture upon their imagination;
they see the tapestry of human life, as it were, on the
wrong side, and it tells no story. They sleep, and they rise
up, and they find themselves, now in Europe, now in Asia;
they see visions of great cities and wild regions; they are
in the marts of commerce, or amid the islands of the South;
they gaze on Pompey's Pillar, or on the Andes; and nothing
which meets them carries them forward or backward, to any
idea beyond itself. Nothing has a drift or relation; nothing
has a history or a promise. Everything stands by itself and
comes and goes in its turn, like the shifting scenes of a
show, which leave the