keeping accounts, and presently you shall walk out of the door that has for so

long seemed to you the barrier of your ideals, and shall find yourself before an

audience--the pen still behind your ear, the ink stains on your fingers--and

then and there shall pour out the torrent of your inspiration. You may be

driving sheep, and you shall wander to the city--bucolic and open-mouthed; shall

wander under the intrepid guidance of the spirit into the studio of the master,

and after a time he shall say, 'I have nothing more to teach you.' And now you

have become the master, who did so recently dream of great things while driving

sheep. You shall lay down the saw and the plane to take upon yourself the

regeneration of the world."

 

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES

 

1. What, in your own words, is personality?

 

2. How does personality in a speaker affect you as a listener?

 

3. In what ways does personality show itself in a speaker?

 

4. Deliver a short speech on "The Power of Will in the Public Speaker."

 

5. Deliver a short address based on any sentence you choose from this chapter.

 

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