Elsewhere the shoe protects the feet against the
roughness of the soil; and in yet other places, it exists only as a
defensive object--a weapon.
These diverse interpretations require diverse signs. This does not prove
the diversity of language, but the diversity of the senses affected by
the same object.
Things are perceived only after the fashion of the perceiver, and this
is why the syllables vary among different peoples.
Nevertheless, there is but one language. We find everywhere these words:
_I_ an active personality, _me_ a passive personality, and _mine_ an
awarding personality. In every language we find the subject, the verb
and the adjective.
Every articulate language is composed of substantive, adjective and
copulative ideas.
All arts are found in articulation. Sound is the articulation of the
vocal apparatus; gesture the articulation of the dynamic apparatus;
language the articulation of the buccal apparatus. Therefore, music, the
plastic arts and speech have their origin and their perfection in
articulation.
It is, then, of the utmost importance to understand thoroughly the
elements of speech, which is at the same time a vocalization and a
dynamic. Without this knowledge no oratorical art is possible.
Let us now hasten to take possession of the riches of speech.
Chapter III.
The Oratorical Value of Speech.
The privilege of speech may be considered under a double aspect, in
itself and in its relations to the art of oratory.
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