Eight Lectures Delivered Before the Law Department of Howard University

L E C T U R E V .

PUBLIC SPEAKING.

all the fruits of human labor—thoughts,

ideas, philosophies, poetry—the products of the

mind are esteemed the most wonderful. Of all

the means for the communication of ideas, the

conveyance of thought, the declaration of senti

ment, the expression of emotion—passion, joy,

fear, love, hope, hatred, or sorrow—of all the

means of informing' producing conviction, per

suading, or moving, the organs of human speech

are the most exquisite and perfect, and by much

excel the sum total of all others. Of all the

agencies to please, excite, allure, seduce, charm,

elevate, depress, or move, nothing in the universe

of nature and the empire of art combined equals

the human voice. In music it furnishes the idea

and model; and that instrument excels as it ap

proaches the power and compass of the human

voice in giving expression to melody. Of all the

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