This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... unless a great deal of thought of the mat-ter has been taken for you. j/Taklng thought, in this connection, is what I mean by obtaining a tone-standard--a clear criterion of the best usage and example: which is but to recognize, once for all, that avoiding vulgarity, arriving at lucidity, pleasantness, charm, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... unless a great deal of thought of the mat-ter has been taken for you. j/Taklng thought, in this connection, is what I mean by obtaining a tone-standard--a clear criterion of the best usage and example: which is but to recognize, once for all, that avoiding vulgarity, arriving at lucidity, pleasantness, charm, and con-tributing by the mode and the degree of utterance a colloquial, a genial value even to an inevitably limited quantity of inten-tion, of thought, is an art to be acquired and cultivated, just as much-as any of the other, subtler, arts of life./There are plenty of influences round about us that make for an imperfect disengagement of the human side of vocal sound, that make for the confused, the ugly, the flat, the thin, the mean, the helpless, that reduce articulation to an easy and ignoble mini-mum, and so keep it as little distinct as possible from the grunting, the squealing, the barking or the roaring of animals. I do not mean to say that civility of utterance may not become an all but unconscious beautiful habit--I mean to say, thank goodness, that this is exactly what it may become. But so to succeed it must be a collective and associated habit; for the greater the number of persons speaking well, in given conditions, the more that number will tend to increase, and the smaller the number the more that number will tend to shrink and lose itself in the desert of the common. Contact and communication, a beneficent contagion, bring about the happy state--the state of sensibility to tone, the state of recognizing, and responding to, certain vocal sounds as tone, and recognizing and reacting from certain others as negations of tone: negations the more offensive in proportion as they have most enjoyed impunity. You will have, indeed, ..
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