( Originally Published Early 1900's ) ELOCUTION A GUIDE TO
RHETORIC. A man who knows just where to pause and emphasize in
order to produce the best elocutionary effects, will know also
how to arrange his words the most effectively when writing.
Still greater will be the influence of the same fact upon his
oratorical rhetoric. He will instinctively come to present his
thoughts not only rhythmically but emphatically. His good
elocution will secure him an audience when he speaks, and often,
too, when what he speaks is put into print.—Essay on Elocution
in the Theological Seminary. ELOCUTION, AS INTERPRETING THE ART
PRINCIPLE. The form to which the elocutionist must apply the
result of technique is a part of himself. Therefore, he, of all
artists, is least liable, in his own conceptions, to divorce the
form of expression from the significance of expression. Take any
elocutionary system and you will see the truth of this,—that of
Delsarte, for instance. What does it suggest? To half of us the
importance and possib