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The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein onlineV EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PACEpage 3 of 8 | page 1 | table of contents  --HERBERT KAUFMAN. Used by permission of _Everybody's Magazine_. _Change of Tempo Prevents Monotony_ The canary in the cage before the window is adding to the beauty and charm of his singing by a continual change of tempo. If King Solomon had been an orator he undoubtedly would have gathered wisdom from the song of the wild birds as well as from the bees. Imagine a song written with but quarter notes. Imagine an auto with only one speed. EXERCISES 1. Note the change of tempo indicated in the following, and how it gives a pleasing variety. Read it aloud. (Fast tempo is indicated by italics, slow by small capitals.) _And he thought that some day he would take the time to play; but, say_--HE WAS WRONG. LIFE'S A SONG; _in the_ SPRING YOUTH _can_ SING _and can_ FLING; BUT JOYS WING WHEN WE'RE OLDER, LIKE THE BIRDS _when it's_ COLDER. _The roses were red as he went rushing by, and glorious tapestries hung in the sky._ 2. Turn to "Fools Gold," on Page 42, and deliver it in an unvaried tempo: note how monotonous is the result. This poem requires a great many changes of tempo, and is an excellent one for practise. 3. Use the changes of tempo indicated in the following, noting how they prevent monotony. Where no change of tempo is indicated, use a moderate speed. Too much of variety would really be a return to monotony. _THE MOB_ "A MOB KILLS THE WRONG MAN" _was flashed in a newspaper headline lately. The mob is an_ IRRESPONSIBLE, UNTHINKING MASS. _It always destroys_ BUT NEVER CONSTRUCTS. _It criticises_ BUT NEVER CREATES. _Utter a great truth_ AND THE MOB WILL HATE YOU. _See how it condemned_ DANTE _to_ EXILE. _Encounter the dangers of the unknown world for its benefit_, AND THE MOB WILL DECLARE YOU CRAZY. _It ridiculed_ COLUMBUS, _and for discovering a new world_ GAVE HIM PRISON AND CHAINS. _Write a poem to thrill human hearts with pleasure_, AND THE MOB WILL ALLOW YOU TO GO HUNGRY: THE BLIND HOMER BEGGED BREAD THROUGH THE STREETS. _Invent a machine to save labor_ AND THE MOB WILL DECLARE YOU ITS ENEMY. _Less than a hundred years ago a furious rabble smashed Thimonier's invention, the sewing machine._ BUILD A STEAMSHIP TO CARRY MERCHANDISE AND ACCELERATE TRAVEL _and the mob will call you a fool_. A MOB LINED THE SHORES OF THE HUDSON RIVER TO LAUGH AT THE MAIDEN ATTEMPT OF "FULTON'S FOLLY," _as they called his little steamboat._ Emerson says: "A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descended to the nature of the beast. _Its fit hour of activity_ is NIGHT. ITS ACTIONS ARE INSANE, _like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle_--IT WOULD WHIP A RIGHT. It would tar and feather justice by inflicting fire and outrage upon the house and persons of those who have these." |