Excerpt from Pure Phonics for Home and Kindergarten: Short Essays Which Present the Need and Method of Teaching the Elementary Sounds of the English Language to Children Before They Are Taught to Read Script or Print the Object Being to Induce Plainer Speech and Reading by the American People Generally
Introductory to the subject-matter of this volume, and as an apology for its issuance, I take the liberty of presenting some extracts from an article on Public Delivery, by Alexander Melville Bell, as published in Werner"s Magazine, February, 1897:
"The rarest quality among all classes of speakers is the clear and intelligible delivery of words. That which ought to be characteristic of every educated person, we look for almost in vain among the majority of the most highly educated. Instead of sonorously vocalizing, crisply articulating and speaking out to their hearers, they mutter and mumble and speak to themselves. The fundamental fault is the absence of phonetic syllabication. Syllables and words run together, so that the closest attention is required to enable the hearer to gather the sense. Instead of this we ought to be able to catch the speaker"s every syllable. The difficulty is that a speaker must utter syllables before an auditor can catch them. This art our lecturers and other orators have need to set themselves to study. They deliver words and phrases but not syllables. In public delivery the last is the most important, for if syllables are heard words and phrases will not fail of apprehension; but if syllables are lost ambiguity and unintelligibility result.
"The man of science, expounding and demonstrating, does not need to employ impassioned oratory. He must however, "be not too tame, either." He must speak so as to be heard by all his auditors and above all remember that he is speaking to them and for their information. All this is so self-evident that it seems idle to set it forth.
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