In an emphatic syllable or word it is necessary to blend the vocality, subvocality and aspiration with utmost nicety, and to do this, each element must be full-formed and complete. Should this not be done, the emphasis will frequently render the words indistinct by making the vocal element much too prominent for the consonants.

EMPHATIC UPWARD MOVEMENT.

Repeat with strong emphasis this phrase: "Arm! Arm! It is, it is the Cannon's opening roar !" Give "arm," and "cannon's" with great force and you will observe: 1. The sound opens abruptly. 2. It is prolonged. 3. It ascends in pitch. Try the test of the line with the chalk and you will perceive the best representation of this sound will be as in Cut.

Also, the following sentences, applying this to the

emphatic syllable.

I.
1. Then burst his mighty heart.

2. We will be revenged! Revenge;

Revenge; aboutseek-burn-fire-kill-slay! Let not a traitor live. 3. You are not my daughter. My daughter would

never dress in satin while her mother starves at home. 'Tis a lie! Away! You are not my daughter! Away!

4. But he shall pay thee back, until the yellow Tiber is red as frothing wine and in its deepest ooze thy life-blood lies curdled.

INFLECTION OF PHRASES.

POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE.

We have observed that language divides itself into Phrases, each phrase having an accent, which renders the meaning apparent. Now Inflexion portrays the relation of your mind to each phrase-whether you like or dislike the idea. If your mind approves, accepts, the Falling Inflexion prevails. If your mind disapproves, rejects, the Rising Inflexion has place. The ideas you approve are Positive; those your mind disapproves, Negative. Positive Ideas give Mental Satisfaction; Negative Ideas, Mental Unsatisfaction. Ideas of Mental Satisfaction are those of Affirmation, Approval, Certainty, Completeness, Command, and all these receive Falling Inflexion.

Ideas of Mental Unsatisfaction are those of Doubt, Disapproval, Suspense, Incompleteness, and all of these have the Rising Inflexion.

EXAMPLES.

1. Did you say humility? I said humility.

A question denotes doubt; it has the rising inflexion. The answer denotes certainty; it has the falling inflexion.

2. If you can do only this, I am done.

The first part is condition, rising inflexion; the second, assertion, falling inflexion.

3. Think not I am come to bring peace into the world; I am not come to bring peace, but the sword. The first part is negative; the second part, positive.

4.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

Knew ye not Pompey?

And do you now put on your best attire

And do you now cull out a holiday?

And do you now strew flowers in his way
That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?

Be gone!

Here we have rising tones which show the displeasure of the speaker. The circumflex prevails. So when people disagree and have an altercation, the rising tones of their voices show more plainly than their words their mental conditions.

5. Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream;

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem!

All phrases here are negative, because we do not believe them. Therefore, we have rising inflexions throughout this stanza.

6. Life is real, life is earnest ;
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art to dust returneth,
Was not spoken of the soul.

The first line is positive, the others negative. The second line, however, may have downward inflexion. It may be given as a positive statement.

7. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow
Is our destined end or way;
But, to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

The first two lines are negative; the last two posi

tive.

8. In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife.

All positive, except the third line, which is strongly negative and requires upward tones in "dumb, driven cattle."

9.

I might, like you, have been a brawler and a reveler; not like you, a trickster and a thief!

The first part is positive, the second part, negative.

IO.

Not as the conqueror comes,

They, the true-hearted, came;

Not with the roll of the stirring drum,
Or the trumpet that sings of fame.

All negative, except the second line, which is strongly positive.

II. O, yes; you please me! Please me mightily. You are most cunning workmen, too; you put your work together so well you never get it apart again! Here you have rising tones throughout.

12. Come, read to me some poem,
Some simple, heartfelt lay,

That shall soothe this restless longing,
And banish the thoughts of day.

This example is positive throughout.

13. Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,

Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of Time.

Negative throughout.

14. For, like strains of martial music,
Their mighty thoughts suggest
Life's endless toil and endeavor,

And, to-night, I long for rest.

Negative, except last line.

15. Why, herein is a wondrous thing, that ye know not whence he is and yet he has opened my eyes. Since the world began it has not been that any man has opened the eyes of one born blind.

Negative.

16. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the fragments of a once glorious Union, on States dissevered, dismembered, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched it may be with fraternal blood. Let their last feeble, lingering glance rather behold the glorious ensign of the Republic, still full high advanced, not a star erased, not a stripe obscured; bearing no such miserable interrogatory as: "What is all this worth, ?" nor those other words of delusion and folly, "Liberty first and Union afterward;" but everywhere, blazing on all its ample folds as they float over the sea and over the land, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart:-“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."

All he wishes to see has falling tones; all he wishes not to see, the rising.