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Excerpt from Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or Hints on the Application of Logic It has become obvious to careful observers that the modern pulpit is more distinguished for strong ability, sound learning, and deep piety than fortits eloquence. Since it'is true of the thousands now annually enter ring the ministry, so few are remarkable for their power and success as speakers who are distinguished scholars and writers, their study and training for speaking are either greatly neglected or fearfully mis directed. The numerous text-books on rhetoric, in every liberal course of study, with the corresponding professorships and hebdomadal declamations, do not indicate a neglect of this branch of edtication. We therefore conclude, that by some means its cultiva tion has become sadly defeetwe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.