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Silence Silence leads to a storage of vitality. Through silence dissipated energy is focussed on to a centre again. And with energy canalized, speech attains a unique power. Silence thus provides an unfailing instrument to render one's speech more dynamic. He who has regulated his speech through silence, whenever he chooses to speak, finds an ineffable joy in his speech, in the words he utters, in the thoughts he expresses. One who never has had any experience of silence, cannot probably comprehend this secret; but he who has been cultivating silence must realise the impact of this truth. Wherefore, to those would-be orators among the younger generation of to-day, I should commend the cultivation of silence as a bewitching instrument of the art of elocution!
Man versus Brute The cardinal difference between man and brute lies only in this: To act by compulsion under the fear of punishment is the hall-mark of a brute, whereas to act under the uplifting urge for duty self-ordained, is the primary characteristic of man.
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