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ELOQUENCE

BY

ROBERT IRVING FULTON

DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORATORY AND PROFESSOR OF ORATORY

IN THE OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

AND

THOMAS CLARKSON TRUEBLOOD

PROFESSOR OF ORATORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Bentley Historical

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University of Michigan

GEORGE WAHR, Publisher

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY ROBERT IRVING FULTON

AND THOMAS CLARKSON TRUEBLOOD

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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PREFACE

This volume is the outgrowth of a clearly defined classroom demand for a critical study of the message and methods of the great English and American orators whose utterances have molded public opinion and guided the destinies of the two great Anglo-Saxon nations. Its object is to conserve the student's time by providing, in one book, that which he has heretofore secured by a somewhat erratic study of many volumes. Our method is that of "precept and example," giving those salient points in the lives and experiences of the orators treated that may serve as a guide to the student of oratory, and furnishing as much of their selected speeches as may be profitably studied and assimilated within the time assigned to this subject in the curriculum. Our plan is to stimulate a study of the sources of oratorical power growing out of the personality, motives, and methods of the orators considered; to set forth the occasion, the circumstances, and the object of some of their most effective speeches; and to reprint such inspiring examples of eloquence as may enrich the mind of the student and strengthen his ideals of public speaking.

Our selection includes twenty-two of the most noted English-speaking orators of the past one hundred and fifty years. We have not undertaken a review of the oratory of a more remote past or a study of the many excellent present-day speakers whose careers have not yet closed. The desire for a consideration of other celebrated debaters and orators, even in the period chosen, may be felt by some of our readers as it is by

us, but our choice has been carefully made, and limited space precludes an extension of the list. It is believed, however, that a close study of these will reach better results than a cursory view of a greater number of speakers.

A prefatory list of the authors read in the preparation of this book would be necessarily incomplete, if not suggestive of invidious distinctions; but we wish to acknowledge here our indebtedness to many sources of information, such as books on oratory and orators, history, biography, magazine articles, and newspapers. Out of a mass of biographical material we have considered each orator from the viewpoint of his art, and have attempted to make such analysis as will reveal the main essentials of his success as a public speaker. We trust that this conservation of oratorical thought may be attractive to the general reader, and that teachers and students in secondary schools and colleges may be interested in this, another effort to diffuse knowledge that may aid in the study of that art of arts - oratory.

ROBERT I. FULTON

THOMAS C. TRUEBLOOD

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