Excerpt from Public Speaking and Reading: A Treatise on Delivery, According to the Principles of the New Elocution
The principles of this treatise are in accord with what may reasonably be called the "New Elocution." The terra "New Elocution" describes, in the first place, the style of delivery in vogue among the representative speakers of today, and in the second place, the method employed by the best teachers of the subject. The style of delivery, especially since the oratory of Wendell Phillips and Henry Ward Beecher, has been conversational at basis; that is, it has been simple, direct, varied, and spontaneous. The new method of teaching lays stress mainly upon mental conditions. It recognizes more fully that man is mind as well as body; and it aims at making the speaker skilful, by attending to the mental, as well as the physical and vocal conditions.
Again, contrary to the usual methods, I have taken up Delivery from the rhetorician"s point of view, and have developed it according to the principles of accepted psychology ; while from the beginning to the end the practical requirements of the subject have been kept in view. These features, together with the doctrine of the conversational basis, make the method pre-eminently a natural one.
Without attempting to give a full account in this place of the distinguishing features of the book, the author calls special attention to Book II., Chapter i., on "The Mental Content of Language."
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