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Public Speaking By: Clarence Stratton (1880-1951) |
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BY
CLARENCE STRATTON; PH.D. DIRECTOR OF ENGLISH
IN HIGH SCHOOL CLEVELAND
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1920
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
January, 1924
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. SPEECH
II. THE VOICE
III. WORDS AND SENTENCES
IV. BEGINNING THE SPEECH
V. CONCLUDING THE SPEECH
VI. GETTING MATERIAL
VII. PLANNING THE SPEECH
VIII. MAKING THE OUTLINE OR BRIEF
IX. EXPLAINING
X. PROVING AND PERSUADING
XI. REFUTING
XII. DEBATING
XIII. SPEAKING UPON SPECIAL OCCASIONS
XIV. DRAMATICS
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
INDEX
To
C.C.S.
PUBLIC SPEAKING CHAPTER I SPEECH
Importance of Speech. There never has been in the history of the world
a time when the spoken word has been equaled in value and importance
by any other means of communication. If one traces the development of
mankind from what he considers its earliest stage he will find that
the wandering family of savages depended entirely upon what its
members said to one another. A little later when a group of families
made a clan or tribe the individuals still heard the commands of the
leader, or in tribal council voiced their own opinions. The beginnings
of poetry show us the bard who recited to his audiences. Drama, in all
primitive societies a valuable spreader of knowledge, entertainment,
and religion, is entirely oral. In so late and well organized
communities as the city republics of Greece all matters were discussed
in open assemblies of the rather small populations. Every great epoch of the world's progress shows the supreme importance
of speech upon human action individual and collective. In the Roman
Forum were made speeches that affected the entire ancient world.
Renaissance Italy, imperial Spain, unwieldy Russia, freedom loving
England, revolutionary France, all experienced periods when the power
of certain men to speak stirred other men into tempestuous action. The history of the United States might almost be written as the
continuous record of the influence of great speakers upon others. The
colonists were led to concerted action by persuasive speeches. The
Colonial Congresses and Constitutional Convention were dominated by
powerful orators. The history of the slavery problem is mainly the
story of famous speeches and debates. Most of the active
representative Americans have been leaders because of their ability to
impress their fellows by their power of expressing sentiments and
enthusiasms which all would voice if they could. Presidents have been
nominated and candidates elected because of this equipment. During the Great War the millions of the world were as much concerned
with what some of their leaders were saying as with what their other
leaders were doing.[1] Speech in Modern Life. There is no aspect of modern life in which the
spoken work is not supreme in importance. Representatives of the
nations of the world deciding upon a peace treaty and deliberating
upon a League of Nations sway and are swayed by speech. National
assemblies from the strangely named new ones of infant nations to the
century old organizations speak, and listen to speeches. In state
legislatures, municipal councils, law courts, religious organizations,
theaters, lodges, societies, boards of directors, stockholders'
meetings, business discussions, classrooms, dinner parties, social
functions, friendly calls in every human relationship where two
people meet there is communication by means of speech. [Footnote 1: See Great American Speeches , edited by Clarence
Stratton, Lippincott and Company.] Scientific invention keeps moving as rapidly as it can to take
advantage of this supreme importance. Great as was the advance marked
by the telegraph, it was soon overtaken and passed by the convenience
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