Public Speaking and Debates

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. The social and public uses of rhetoric. 3. The nature of rhetoric. 4. What is meant by elocution. 5. Representative speech. 6. Logic of every-day life. 7. Delivery. 8. Gesture measured by conviction. 9. Conditions of effectiveness. 10. Laws of debate. 11. Personalities the digressions of debate. 12. Policy of debate. 13. Defence of debate. 14. The theory of epithets-moral as well as rhetorical. 15. Method in expression. 16. Tact an acquisition. 17. Contingencies of public meetings. 18. Writing for the press. 19. Sources of taste. 20. Premeditation in speech. 21. Repetition a necessity. 22. Signs of mastery. 23. Nature and conditions of oratory. 24. Originality mind of the orator. 25. The outside mind of the orator. 26. Pulpit oratory. 27. Platform reading. 28. Figures of speech. 29. Poetry in relation to rhetoric. 30. Style explained. 31. What has been said.