The Art of Public Speaking eBook

Stephen Lucas
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about The Art of Public Speaking.

The Art of Public Speaking eBook

Stephen Lucas
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about The Art of Public Speaking.

47.  THE BLESSING OF DISCONTENT. 
    Based on many examples of what has been accomplished by those who
    have not “let well-enough alone.”

48.  “CORRUPT AND CONTENTED.” 
    A study of the relation of the apathetic voter to vicious government.

49.  THE MOLOCH OF CHILD-LABOR.

50.  EVERY MAN HAS A RIGHT TO WORK.

51.  CHARITY THAT FOSTERS PAUPERISM.

52.  “NOT IN OUR STARS BUT IN OURSELVES.” 
    Destiny vs. choice.

53.  ENVIRONMENT VS. HEREDITY.

54.  THE BRAVERY OF DOUBT. 
    Doubt not mere unbelief.  True grounds for doubt.  What doubt has led
    to.  Examples.  The weakness of mere doubt.  The attitude of the
    wholesome doubter versus that of the wholesale doubter.

55.  THE SPIRIT OF MONTICELLO. 
    A message from the life of Thomas Jefferson.

56.  NARROWNESS IN SPECIALISM. 
    The dangers of specializing without first possessing broad
    knowledge.  The eye too close to one object.  Balance is a vital
    prerequisite for specialization.

57.  RESPONSIBILITY OF LABOR UNIONS TO THE LAW.

58.  THE FUTURE OF SOUTHERN LITERATURE. 
    What conditions in the history, temperament and environment of our
    Southern people indicate a bright literary future.

59.  WOMAN THE HOPE OF IDEALISM IN AMERICA.

60.  THE VALUE OF DEBATING CLUBS.

61.  AN ARMY OF THIRTY MILLIONS. 
    In praise of the Sunday-school.

62.  THE BABY. 
    How the ever-new baby holds mankind in unselfish courses and saves
    us all from going lastingly wrong.

63.  LO, THE POOR CAPITALIST.
    His trials and problems.

64.  HONEY AND STING. 
    A lesson from the bee.

65.  UNGRATEFUL REPUBLICS. 
    Examples from history.

66.  “EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE.” 
    Horace Walpole’s cynical remark is not true now, nor was it true
    even in his own corrupt era.  Of what sort are the men who cannot
    be bought?  Examples.

67.  THE SCHOLAR IN DIPLOMACY. 
    Examples in American life.

68.  LOCKS AND KEYS. 
    There is a key for every lock.  No difficulty so great, no truth so
    obscure, no problem so involved, but that there is a key to fit the
    lock.  The search for the right key, the struggle to adjust it, the
    vigilance to retain it—­these are some of the problems of success.

69.  RIGHT MAKES MIGHT.

70.  ROOMING WITH A GHOST.
    Influence of the woman graduate of fifty years before on the college
    girl who lives in the room once occupied by the distinguished
    “old grad.”

71.  NO FACT IS A SINGLE FACT. 
    The importance of weighing facts relatively.

72.  IS CLASSICAL EDUCATION DEAD TO RISE NO MORE?

73.  INVECTIVE AGAINST NIETSCHE’S PHILOSOPHY.

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