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The Art of Public Speaking

by Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J Berg Esenwein

A FOREWORD

The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power A book ood ideas well expressed, but if its writer views his subject frole even his excellent advice may prove to be ineffective

This book stands or falls by its authors' attitude toward its subject

If the best way to teach oneself or others to speak effectively in public is to fill the mind with rules, and to set up fixed standards for the interpretation of thought, the utterance of language, the estures, and all the rest, then this book will be lies as roup of principles it must be reckoned a failure, because it is then untrue

It is of some importance, therefore, to those who take up this volume with open mind that they should see clearly at the out-start what is the thought that at once underlies and is builded through this structure In plain words it is this:

Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals--primarily; it is not a matter of imitation--fundamentally; it is not ais public utterance, public issuance, of theboth in time and in is that are worthy of being given forth Unless there be so can ever hly perfected oods So self-development is fundamental in our plan

The second principle lies close to the first: The ht, his feelings, and all his physical powers, so that the outer self ive perfect, unhampered expression to the inner It is futile, we assert, to lay down systeesture, and what not, unless these two principles of having soun to make themselves felt in the life

The third principle will, we surmise, arouse no dispute: No one can learn _how_ to speak who does not first speak as best he can That may seem like a vicious circle in statement, but it will bear exaun with the _how_ Vain effort! It is an ancient truisinner in public speaking is to speak--not to study voice and gesture and the rest Once he has spoken he can i to the criticisms of those who hear

But how shall he be able to criticise his: What are the qualities which by coo to make up an effective speaker; by what means at least so habits of speech in hi the qualities which he finds to be good

Experience, then, is not only the best teacher, but the first and the last But experience --the experience of others must be used to supplement, correct and justify our own experience; in this e shall become our own best critics only after we have trained ourselves in self-knowledge, the knowledge of what other e ourselves by the standards we have coht,” said Kant, ”I can”

An examination of the contents of this volume will sho consistently these articles of faith have been declared, expounded, and illustrated

The student is urged to begin to speak at once of what he knows Then he is given si emphasis upon the power of the inner man over the outer Next, the way to the rich storehouses of ed to speak, _speak_, _SPEAK_ as he is applying to his own athered from his own experience and observation and the recorded experiences of others

So now at the very first let it be as clear as light that methods are secondary matters; that the full mind, the warm heart, the dominant will are primary--and not only pri that uses the e in the clothes of a man

J BERG ESENWEIN

NARBERTH, PA, JANUARY 1, 1915

THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING

Sense never fails to give theh to make them understood It too often happens in some conversations, as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Eaudily Dress'd as those that are full of precious Drugs

They that soar too high, often fall hard,preferable The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and As have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather

--WILLIAM PENN