. A natural system of elocution and oratory : founded on an analysis of human constitution, considered in its three-fold nature--mental, physiological and expressional. le worshipper to holdCommunion with his Maker! Devotion or Loyalty.—Veneration and love are theroot elements of devotion. We are loyal to ourcountry, party, friends, or principles because theyare venerable and worthy of our love. We are easilyinfluenced by appeals made to our loyalty and wedetest those who desert or betray a cause which theyhave espoused. Language.—Devotion is similar to friendship andveneration in its unstudie
. A natural system of elocution and oratory : founded on an analysis of human constitution, considered in its three-fold nature--mental, physiological and expressional. le worshipper to holdCommunion with his Maker! Devotion or Loyalty.—Veneration and love are theroot elements of devotion. We are loyal to ourcountry, party, friends, or principles because theyare venerable and worthy of our love. We are easilyinfluenced by appeals made to our loyalty and wedetest those who desert or betray a cause which theyhave espoused. Language.—Devotion is similar to friendship andveneration in its unstudied CLASS. Marvellousness or Spirituality.—There appears tobe a faculty in man the function of which is the per-ception of spiritual truths. In its simple excitemen-tal state it produces faith and wonder. In its emo-tional and passional states it produces credulity. TEANSCENDENTAL GEOUP. 191 The emotions springing from marveiiousness havecreated a vast world peopled by imaginary and warlocks,ghosts, goblins and hobgoblins,fairies, wood-nymphs, and all the host of the upperand lower worlds, have received form and reality. Teust in the Spieitual. from these emotions. Apparitions, shades of the de-parted, second sight, visions, dreams, and propheticwarnings spring from these emotions. They arehighly dramatic; many of the plays now performed inthe theatre wonld lose their attraction if the elementof the marvellous was eliminated. Human ingenuityhas invented stage arrangements which successfully 192 ELOCUTION AND ORATORY. represent to the eye the supernatural creations ofmarvellousness. Credulity, or faith in the supernatural, is an emo-tion arising from the contemplation of the creationsof the heated imagination. In its passionate state ofexcitement credulity is prone to superstitious dreamsand visions. Prompted by the emotion of credulitymen have claimed a supernatural origin for theirteachings, have even fancied themselves attendedby spi
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