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...important task Goethe's own answer to his challenging question quoted at the beginning of this paper? If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive, If...power, In vain you strive, in vain you study earnestly. But never hope to stir the hearts of men And mould the souls of many into one By words which come not...

...will speak with that forcible eloquence which alone deserves the name of elocution." — NH Gillespie "If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive. If...hearers with communicated power. In vain you strive .... Never hope to stir the hearts of men, And mould the souls of many into one. By words which come...

...examples of true Indian oratory extant, what Goethe has well said : " If from the soul the language dues not come, By its own impulse to impel the hearts Of...power. In vain you strive, in vain you study earnestly. * * Never hope to stir the hearts of men, And mould the souls of many into one, By words which come...