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great educator. The people, in whose hands is the government, need just and lofty ideas on great issues, need continually to be lifted to a higher plane of public opinion. And this is needed not only when a vote hangs directly on the orator's effort, but also when the people can with leisurely mind and without partisan excitement consider large ideas in their true light. The work is now mostly done by journalism, and great and salutary is the influence; but the orator's field is by no means closed, nor will it be, so long as men delight in the living voice, the warmth of eloquence, and the presence of influential men.

INDEXES.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

[The titles of main divisions, chapters, and sections, are set in small capitals.]

Abeyance of judgments, 234.
Ablative absolute, equivalent of, 158.
ABSTRACT, 307; occasion and method
of, 307; rules of, 310; value of as
discipline, 309.

Analytical judgment in interpretation, 305.
Anecdotes, use of in amplification, 296.
Antecedent, discrimination of, 123; rec-
ognition of nature of, 132.
Anti-climax, 106.

Abstract and concrete, relations of in am- Antique diction, 82.

plification, 291.

ACCESSORIES OF AMPLIFICATION, 297;

of description, 338.

Accurate use of words, 29.

Antithesis, 102; exposition by, 392; use
in description, 340.
Aphoristic literature, 287.
A posteriori argument, 417.

Achievement of object, the speaker's, Apostrophe, 98.

456.

Adaptation, the task of rhetoric, 1; ways

of in discourse, 2.

Adjective, placing of, 117.
Adverb, placing of, 119.
Adjustment, inversion for, 166.

Adversative conjunctional relation, 142.
A fortiori argument, 421.
Alertness, mental, 227.
Allegory, 94.

Alliance with audience, the speaker's,

449.

Alliteration, 60; use of in description,
342.
Allusion, 298.

Alternation of types in diction, 75.
Alternative as basis of argument, 429.
AMPLIFICATION, 285; ACCESSORIES OF,

297; MEANS OF, 290; of syllogism,
427; not always desirable, 286; the
writer's mood in, 285; USES OF, 286;
why needed, 288.

Amplifying paragraph, the, 211.
Amplitude of style, 151.

Appeal, distinctive of persuasion, 463;
to motives, explicit, 465; implicit,
466.

A priori argument, 417.

Aptitude, as related to art, 4; marks of
inventive, 221.

Archaic terms, affectation of, 38.
Archaisms, poetic, 52.

Argument a fortiori, 421; a posteriori,

417; a priori, 417; deductive, 424;
from analogy, 422; from example,
421; inductive, 416; kinds of, in ora-
tory, 471.
ARGUMENTATION, 407; theme in, 257;
what it owes to exposition, 439.
Argumentative form predominant in ora-
tory, 458.

Arguments from sign, 419; order of, 441;
THE BODY OF, 439.

Arrangement of words in prose, 66.
Art and science discriminated, 4.
Article, etc., placing of, 118.

Artifice, futility of, in persuasion, 450.
Association, laws of, 273.

Analogy, argument from, 422; exposition Assonance, 61.

Audience, speaker's alliance with, 449.

Analysis, as instrument of refutation, Augmentation, 150.

by, 395.

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Balanced sentence, 191.

Balanced structure, 164.
Bathos, 106.

Beauty of style, 23.

Beginnings and endings, paragraph, 209.
Bibliography, use of interest in, 241.

Biography, 378.

Bookishness, antidote to, 231.

Brevity, poetic, 50.

Burden of proof, 444.

Cadence, 171.
Cant, 48.

Catholicity of taste, 228.

Cause and effect, law of, 275.
Chain of reasoning, the, 428.
Character, personal, in persuasion, 449.
CHOICE OF WORDS, 29; in prose, 64.
Chronological order in narrative, 361.
Circumlocution, 153.

Circumstantial description, 334.
Circumstantial evidence, 419.
Classical derivatives, use of, 43.
Classification, 397.
Clauses, placing of, 121.

Clearness, elements of, 19; FIGURES PRO-

MOTING, 87; habit of seeking, 232.
Climax, 105; as emphasizing narrative
movement, 367; in plan, 263.
Coinage of new terms, 36.
Collective noun, concord of, 112.
Collocation, 117.
Colloquial diction, 82.

Commonplace books, use of, 242.
Comparison by than, as, etc., 136.
COMPOSITION, 108.

Compounds, poetic fondness for, 51.
Comprehensive outline, in description,
330.

Concession, in debate, 445.

Conclusion, 279; form and style of, 280;

relation to body of discourse, 280.
Concord of subject and verb, 110.
Concrete and abstract in amplification,
291.

CONCRETENESS, FIGURES PROMOTING,
87.

Condensation, 154; as means of ab-

stracting, 309; for rapidity, 157; for
strength, 154.

Condensed expression, value of, 286.
Conditional clauses, 140, 147.

Conjunctional relation, 138.
Connexion of words in prose, 67.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE PLAN, 260; re-
quisites of, 262.
Contiguity, law of, 273.

Continuity in the paragraph, 198; MEANS
OF PRESERVING, 282.

Contrast, as emphasizing narrative move-
ment, 366; law of, 274; principle of,
103; use in description, 340.

Conversation, report of, 127.

Coördinating conjunctions, 139.

Coördination of antecedent, 127.

Correlation, 135.

Creative reading, 235.

Criticism, 404; its initial requirement,

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DEBATE, 444.
Deduction, 424.

Deductive order, 278.

Definition, 387; amplified, 389; logical,
387.

Demonstrative, placing of, 118.
Demonstratives, use of, 124.
Dependence, order of, in narration, 361.
Derivation and history of words, impor-
tance of knowing, 33.

DESCRIPTION, 326; accessories of, 338;
as aid to narration, 369; circumstan-
tial, 334; definition of, 326; dynamic,
335; IN ITS PRINCIPLES, 326; IN
LITERATURE, 350; logical, 391;
mechanism of, 328; objective and
subjective, 343; theme in, 257.
Detail, portrayal without, 337.
Details, sequence of, in description, 332;
subdual of, 334.
Development, the, 272.
Dialect diction, 82.

DICTION, 28; antique, foreign, etc., 82;
AS DETERMINED BY OBJECT AND
OCCASION, 76; definition of, 28;
POETIC, CHARACTERISTICS OF, 48;
PROSE, CHARACTERISTICS AND
TYPES OF, 63; spoken, 76; written,
80; written for public delivery, 79.

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