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Updated: May 15, 2025
This is the speech of it on the lips of the actor who comes in to interpret to us the thinker's inaction, the thinker's irresolution, for 'it is conscience that makes cowards of us all. Here is a man who is resolute enough. His will is not 'puzzled. His thoughts, his scruples will not divide and destroy his purpose. 'What would you undertake to do? 'To cut his throat i' the church.
In this respect the analysis is partly true and partly false; it is not, as we shall see, perfect and exact. It sometimes happens, owing to special circumstances and conditions of mind, or to peculiar temperaments, that the ideas of things do not remain as mere thoughts in the thinker's mind, but that they become so intense that they are for the moment held to be real, precisely as in a dream.
Now, silent thought, whenever it destroys, destroys only to reconstruct the universe or the atom in the thinker's image; and new realities arise whenever a real individual creature reveals his needs and ways of feeling.
Great as our modern scientists are, there is not one of them who would be capable of writing an acknowledged masterpiece on Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, Poetry, Metaphysics as well as on his own subject. Nor have we yet mentioned this stupendous thinker's full claim to absolute predominance in intellectual effort.
He, more than any other man, combined in himself the moralist's oppugnancy to Slavery as a fact, the thinker's resentment of it as a theory, and the statist's distrust of it as a policy, thus summing up the three efficient causes that have chiefly aroused and concentrated the antagonism of the Free States.
The essential thing comes to be the reflection of the social standard in the thinker's own judgment; the thoughts thought must always be critically judged by the thinker himself; and for the most part his judgment is at once also the social judgment. This may be illustrated further.
Goethe's entire view of nature, art, and life rested upon the teleological or organic conception; he, too, regarded the ability to peer into the heart of things to see the whole in its parts, the ideal in the real, the universal in the particular, as the poet's and thinker's highest gift.
The squire paused, his keen scrutinising look dwelling on the face beside him, as though to judge whether he were understood. 'Oh, true! cried Elsmere; 'most true. Now I know what vague want it is that has been haunting me for months He stopped short, his look, aglow with all the young thinker's ardour, fixed on the squire.
But a golden page of a favourite poet, a thought newly minted in the glowing heat of a true thinker's mind, a pregnant word that sets your fancy ranging through eternity, a luminous doctrine that rises on the intellectual horizon like a star, these are your wealth. You feel keenly the darkness of the world, and are perplexed by a hundred problems.
Read Herbert Spencer on the "Philosophy of Style," and apply his reasoning to the delivery of an address, and you have the rationale of the art of speaking, as well as of speech, put with that wonderful thinker's unerringness. The method commonly employed in preparing speeches is incorrect.
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