consummate flower of our EARLIER civilization, AND JOHN BROWN the ripe fruit of

our NOONDAY,_ then, dipping her pen in the sunlight, will write in the clear

blue, above them all, the name of _THE SOLDIER, THE STATESMAN, THE MARTYR,

TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE._

 

--Wendell Phillips, _Toussaint l'Ouverture_.

 

Drill on the following selections for change of pitch: Beecher's "Abraham

Lincoln," p. 76; Seward's "Irrepressible Conflict," p. 67; Everett's "History of

Liberty," p. 78; Grady's "The Race Problem," p. 36; and Beveridge's "Pass

Prosperity Around," p. 470.

 

CHAPTER V

 

EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PACE

 

Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattlin' an' thumpin'! Now meekly

calm, now wild in wrath, He's stampin' an' he's jumpin'.

 

--ROBERT BURNS, _Holy Fair_.

 

The Latins have bequeathed to us a word that has no precise equivalent in our

tongue, therefore we have accepted it, body unchanged--it is the word _tempo_,

and means _rate of movement_, as measured by the time consumed in executing that

movement.