7. Invent a list of ten subjects for speeches, saying which would give most room

for pure thought and which for feeling.

 

8. Prepare and deliver a ten-minute speech denouncing the (imaginary) unfeeling

plea of an attorney; he may be either the counsel for the defense or the

prosecuting attorney, and the accused may be assumed to be either guilty or

innocent, at your option.

 

9. Is feeling more important than the technical principles expounded in chapters

III to VII? Why?

 

10. Analyze the secret of some effective speech or speaker. To what is the

success due?

 

11. Give an example from your own observation of the effect of feeling and

enthusiasm on listeners.

 

12. Memorize Carlyle's and Emerson's remarks on enthusiasm.

 

13. Deliver Patrick Henry's address, page 110, and Thurston's speech, page 50,

without show of feeling or enthusiasm. What is the result?

 

14. Repeat, with all the feeling these selections demand. What is the result?

 

15. What steps do you intend to take to develop the power of enthusiasm and