feeling in delivery.

 

A living force that brings to itself all the resources of imagination, all the

inspirations of feeling, all that is influential in body, in voice, in eye, in

gesture, in posture, in the whole animated man, is in strict analogy with the

divine thought and the divine arrangement; and there is no misconstruction more

utterly untrue and fatal than this: that oratory is an artificial thing, which

deals with baubles and trifles, for the sake of making bubbles of pleasure for

transient effect on mercurial audiences. So far from that, it is the

consecration of the whole man to the noblest purposes to which one can address

himself--the education and inspiration of his fellow men by all that there is in

learning, by all that there is in thought, by all that there is in feeling, by

all that there is in all of them, sent home through the channels of taste and of

beauty.

 

--HENRY WARD BEECHER.

 

4. What in your opinion are the relative values of thought and feeling in a

speech?

 

5. Could we dispense with either?

 

6. What kinds of selections or occasions require much feeling and enthusiasm?

Which require little?