John Quincy Adams, answered from the texts and cited to the page.
The art has a settled structure because the mind of an audience has one. Invention, disposition, elocution, memory and delivery are not a schoolroom antiquity; they are the parts of the thing itself, and Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian discovered them because they were there to be discovered. A republic that will not train its citizens in them has not become more democratic. It has only decided to be governed by whoever happens to speak best without instruction.12
VII. Such then iire the primary divisions, under which I am to treat of the science of rhetoric and the order, in which I have mentioned them, is that, pointed out by the natural succession of things, in their appHcation to the art of oratory.Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, Vol 1, pp. 174–175
This distinction it will be proper constantly to bear in mind. It is always useful to mark the difference, as well as the relation l^etween the cause and its effect; and in the progress of our discussion we shall have frequent occasion separately and distinctly to exam- ine as well the principles of the rhctoricinn, as the performances of the orator.Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, Vol 1, pp. 35–37
Contested by the whole subsequent course of American speech, which went plain, popular and vernacular, and by readers who hear in the classical system a preference for the educated over the many.