and between science and art. Science furnishes the basis of art; it furnishes facts and material; it gives a better understanding of Nature's modes and processes: but art rises higher. It is intuitive and synthetic, not analytic. It must result from trusting instinct; it must result from a sympathetic identification of man with Nature. The truthfulness and adequacy of delivery are directly dependent upon the participation of the man himself; it is in proportion as the processes, the noble feeling, and the attitude of the man himself are revealed. The expression of truth depends upon assimilation and identification. A young minister preaches upon the temptation of Christ. He gives all the latest views on the subject, he gives a careful interpretation of what each temptation means; but there is no realization on his part of the fact of Christ's experience. He has a cold, hard voice; but the trouble is not in his voice. It truthfully manifests his own apprehension of what he is saying, and his attitude towards it. There is plenty of theory, plenty of explanation, plenty of doctrine. There is no personality; there is no Christ felt. The man himself does not show any assimilation or realization through his delivery. It is an external discussion, which might be all right in an essay, but is wrong in oratory. It lacks any artistic element whatever. If his imagination were active, if he had a vivid realization of the scene, and if he could feel one being tried, how different would be his delivery, his voice, his bearing! His whole effect upon others would be transformed.

Of all forms of art, that of delivery must be the most personal. It is the "manifestation of truth by personality;" it is that which is nearest to personality. The vocal and the pantomimic actions of the man, when made the subject of mechanical rules, are always artificialized. They are made cold and external. The first step to develop delivery must be the study of the mind's realization and assimilation of truth, the soul's point of view, the harmonious awakening of the whole man. Then must follow work upon right modes of execution. Mere impulse, even right impulse, cannot

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E spend entirely too much time in lamenting the fact that our work of Expression does not receive due appreciation, while at the same time many of us are putting it in such an impracticable, intangible form that people cannot see its possible value to them. In speaking of our aims, for instance, we often say that it educates the imagination. To how many does this mean anything that is desirable? The majority of people even think that the imagination is a faculty to be repressed, a vague, dreamy, fanciful something which makes us unfit to face the stern realities of everyday life. Now, until we rid people's minds of this perverted idea in regard to the use of the imagination, we cannot expect them to make a demand for our work. We must not only cause them to see

that their idea is wrong, but also that the education of the imagination has a most essential and practical relation to every man's life and to success in all kinds of work.

Do you find a teacher of Expression in a medical, law, or commercial school? Is a law student or a medical student willing to lay aside his interesting "Blackstone" or stiff" to " dig" out and present a scene from Shakespeare, or to render some beautiful lyric? Yet the most successful lawyer is the lawyer with the most imagination, the lawyer who, consciously or unconsciously, puts himself, first, in his client's place, and pleads it as if it were his own; next, in his opponent's place, in order to know just how to meet the attacks which this opponent will probably make on him; then, in the place of the jurymen, that he may know just what points will be most effective; and last, in his judge's place, in order to know how to obtain justice from him. All agree that the physician who puts himself in his patient's place and sympathetically feels his ills, will be far more able to prescribe a real remedy than the one who takes note of his patient's complaints and only consults his medical book for a cure. The merchant's secret of success is his

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ability to buy just those goods for which there will be sale. The successful merchant, before buying, puts himself in his customer's place and buys from that point of view. If the law student, medical student, and young business man could be made to see that the study and presentation of a scene from Shakespeare, or the rendering of a lyric, was not a digression, but something that has a direct relation to his life work, what a difference it would make in the appreciation of Expression, as well as the demand for it!

It is by the imagination that we are able to form ideas, so that we can see the whole while working on a part. This power of the imagination is of very practical use in every line of work; even the carpenter builds a very poor house indeed unless he keeps in mind the whole house while working on a part. All poor work shows some lack of this imaginative power.

The use of the imagination should appeal to all. Some one has said that it is not hard-heartedness that causes so much selfishness in the world, but a lack of imagination. If we could really live our neighbor's life for ten minutes, we should afterward take an interest in some one besides self. It is by the cultivation of the imagination that we are able to become less self-centred, and enter into sympathetic relations with humanity.

The training of the imagination is necessary for the development of taste and the sense of beauty, for the ennobling of all life, and to increase our enjoyment of nature and art; but it is also practically necessary. The blacksmith, the business man, the professional man, every man, should be trained to see that he has a use for the imagination as well as the painter and the poet.

The cultivation of the imagination is only one aim of the work of Expression. Every phase of training in Expression is of practical use to everybody in every department of life. If we can cause people to see our work in this light, as something they really need, then they will make a demand for it; and the demand will increase the supply, not only in quantity, but in quality.

ability to buy just those goods for which there will be sale. The successful merchant, before buying, puts himself in his customer's place and buys from that point of view. If the law student, medical student, and young business man could be made to see that the study and presentation of a scene from Shakespeare, or the rendering of a lyric, was not a digression, but something that has a direct relation to his life work, what a difference it would make in the appreciation of Expression, as well as the demand for it!

It is by the imagination that we are able to form ideas, so that we can see the whole while working on a part. This power of the imagination is of very practical use in every line of work; even the carpenter builds a very poor house indeed unless he keeps in mind the whole house while working on a part. All poor work shows some lack of this imaginative power.

The use of the imagination should appeal to all. Some one has said that it is not hard-heartedness that causes so much selfishness in the world, but a lack of imagination. If we could really live our neighbor's life for ten minutes, we should afterward take an interest in some one besides self. It is by the cultivation of the imagination that we are able to become less self-centred, and enter into sympathetic relations with humanity.

The training of the imagination is necessary for the development of taste and the sense of beauty, for the ennobling of all life, and to increase our enjoyment of nature and art; but it is also practically necessary. The blacksmith, the business man, the professional man, every man, should be trained to see that he has a use for the imagination as well as the painter and the poet.

The cultivation of the imagination is only one aim of the work of Expression. Every phase of training in Expression is of practical use to everybody in every department of life. If we can cause people to see our work in this light, as something they really need, then they will make a demand for it; and the demand will increase the supply, not only in quantity, but in quality.