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CONTENTS
VOLUME II
Chapter PAGE
XXXIII. PUBLICSPEAKING.............................................................. 411
XXXIV. THE TRIUMPHS OF THE COMMON VIRTUES......................... 424
XXXV. GETTING AROUSED............................................................ 433
XXXVI. THE MAN WITH AN IDEA..................................................... 439
XXXVII. DARE................................................................................ 452
XXXVIII. THE WILL AND THE WAY..................................................... 471
XXXIX. ONE UNWAVERING AIM..................................................... 485
XL. WORK AND WAIT.............................................................. 500
XLI. THE MIGHT of LITTLE THINGS............................................. 513
XLII. THE SALARY YOU DO NOT FIND IN YOUR PAY ENVELOPE....... 525
XLIII. EXPECT GREAT THINGS of YOURSELF................................... 540
XLIV. THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK YOU ARE A FAILURE................... 553
XLV. STAND FOR SOMETHING................................................... 564
XLVI. NATURE'S LITTLE BILL........................................................ 573
XLVII. HABIT - THE SERVANT, - THE MASTER.................................. 589
XLVIII. THE CIGARETTE................................................................. 601
XLIX. THE POWER OF PURITY...................................................... 617
L. THE HABIT OF HAPPINESS................................................. 634
LI. PUT BEAUTY INTO YOUR LIFE............................................. 647
LII. EDUCATION BY ABSORPTION............................................ 661
LIII THE POWER of SUGGESTION ............................................ 670
LIV. THE CURSE OF WORRY...................................................... 682
LV. TAKE A PLEASANT THOUGHT TO BED WITH YOU................. 690
LVI. THE CONQUEST OF POVERTY ............................................ 698
LVII. A NEW WAY of BRINGING up CHILDREN............................. 707
LVIII. THE HOME AS A SCHOOL OF GOOD MANNERS.................. 722
LIX. MOTHER......................................................................... 725
LX. WHY SO MANY MARRIED WOMEN DETERIORATE.. ............. 739
LXI. THRIFT............................................................................ 753
LXII. A COLLEGE EDUCATION AT HOME..................................... 765
LXIII. DISCRIMINATION IN READING.......................................... 780
LXIV. READING A SPUR TO AMBITION........................................ 789
LXV. WHY SOME SUCCEED AND OTHERS FAIL............................ 802
LXVI. RICH WITHOUT MONEY.................................................... 816 Please Share PUSHING TO THE FRONT Volume II
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CHAPTER XXXIII
SELF-IMPROVEMENT THROUGH PUBLIC SPEAKING
It does not matter whether you want to be a public speaker or not, everybody should
have such complete control of himself, should be so self-centered and self posed that
he can get up in any audience, no matter how large or formidable, and express his
thoughts clearly and distinctly.
Self-expression in some manner is the only means of developing mental power. It
may be in music; it may be on canvas; it may be through oratory; it may come
through selling goods or writing a book; but it must come through self-expression.
Self-expression in any legitimate form tends to call out what is in a man, his
resourcefulness, inventiveness; but no other form of self-expression develops a man
so thoroughly and so effectively, and so quickly unfolds all of his powers, as
expression before an audience.
It is doubtful whether anyone can reach the highest standard of culture without
studying the art of expression, especially public vocal expression. In all ages oratory
has been regarded as the highest expression of human achievement. Young people, no
matter what they intend to be, whether blacksmith or farmer, merchant or physician,
should make it a study.
Nothing else will call out what is in a man so quickly and so effectively as the
constant effort to do his best in speaking before an audience. When one under takes to
think on his feet and speak extemporaneously before the public, the power and the
skill of the entire man are put to a severe test.
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The writer has the advantage of being able to wait for his moods. He can write when he
feels like it; and he knows that he can burn his manuscript again and again if it does
not suit him. There are not a thousand eyes upon him. He does not have a great
audience criticizing every sentence, weighing every thought. He does not have to step
upon the scales of every listener's judgment to be weighed, as does the orator. A man
may write as listlessly as he pleases, use much or little of his brain or energy, just as
he chooses or feels like doing. No one is watching him. His pride and vanity are not
touched, and what he writes may never be seen by anyone. Then, there is always a
chance for revision. In conversation, we do not feel that so much depends upon our
words; only a few persons hear them, and perhaps no one will ever think of them
again. In music, whether vocal or instrumental, what one gives out is only partially
one's own; the rest is the composer's.
Yet anyone who lays any claim to culture, should train himself to think on his feet, so
that he can at a moment's notice rise and express himself intelligently. The occasions
for little speaking are increasing enormously. A great many questions which used to be
settled in the office are now discussed and settled at dinners. All sorts of business deals
are now carried through at dinners. There was never before any such demand for
dinner oratory as today.
We know men who have, by the dint of hard work and persistent grit, lifted themselves
into positions of prominence, and yet they are not able to stand on their feet in public,
even to make a few remarks, or scarcely to put a motion without trembling like an
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They had plenty of opportunities when they were young, at school, in debating clubs to
get rid of their self-consciousness and to acquire ease and facility in public speaking,
but they always shrank from every opportunity, because they were timid, or felt that
somebody else could handle the debate or questions better. There are plenty of
business men today who would give a great deal of money if they could only go back
and improve the early opportunities for learning to think and speak on their feet which
they threw away. Now they have money, they have position, but they are nobodies
when called upon to speak in public. All they can do is to look foolish, blush, stammer
out an apology and sit down.
Some time ago I was at a public meeting when a man who stands very high in the
community, who is king in his specialty, was called upon to give his opinion upon the
matter under consideration, and he got up and trembled and stammered and could
scarcely say his soul was his own. He could not even make a decent appearance. He
had power and a great deal of experience, but there he stood, as helpless as a child,
and he felt cheap, mortified, embarrassed, and probably would have given anything if
he had early in life trained himself to get himself in hand so that he could think on his
feet and say with power and effectiveness that which he knew.
At the very meeting where this strong man who had the respect and confidence of
everybody who knew him, and who made such a miserable failure of his attempt to
give his opinion upon an important public matter on which he was well posted, being
so confused and self-conscious and " stage struck " that he could say scarcely anything,
a shallow-brained business man, in the same city, who hadn't a hundredth part of the
other man's practical power in affairs, got up and made a brilliant speech, and
strangers no doubt thought that he was much the stronger man. He had simply
cultivated the ability to say his best thing on his feet, and the other man had not, and
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A very brilliant young man in New York who has climbed to a responsible position in
a very short time, tells me that he has been surprised on several occasions when he
has been called upon to speak at banquets, o