ocality, is the appropriate
expression for all the intenser passions._

III. STRESS. Stress is force considered with respect of the form of its
application to the concrete. Since the equable concrete is the natural
colorless expression of unimpassioned thought, force applied to any part
of it changes its character, and gives it a more or less significant
emphasis. The three most usual forms of stress are the _radical_, the
_median_, and the _final_; these may be effected in any of the degrees
of force. _Compound stress_ and _thorough stress_ admit of but little
variation.

=Radical Stress=, to some extent an essential, but not an expressive
element in the equable concrete, is, in a somewhat stronger form, an
element in all utterance that is intended to be vivid and energetic,
emphasizing these characteristics by its own incisive clearness. The
more animated and energetic the diction the clearer and more determined
should be the opening of the concrete, that is, the more distinct and
forcible should be its radical stress; while in graver language the
radical stress is less pronounced. In its emphatic degree it ought at no
time to be allowed to become a current mode, imparting its peculiar
incisive character to every syllable; though, for especial emphasis, it
may be appropriately used in this way in the utterance of the several
words of a phrase.

=Final Stress= differs from radical stress principally in this, that
while it equally indicates energy and positiveness, it does so as in
accordance with predetermination and reflection. _Radical stress
denotes, as it were, an involuntary state of energy; final stress, the
energy or fixedness of resolve._ Hence, final stress is appropriate to
the expression of resolution, of obstinacy, of earnest conviction, of
passionate resolve. It emphasizes the characteristics of wide intervals,
giving to rising intonations a more decidedly interrogatory character,
and making falling intonations more vehemently and passionately
positive.

=Median Stress=, as it can be effectively applied to none but indefinite
or mutable syllables, is compatible only with such a rate of utterance
as will permit of these receiving long quantities. It may receive any
degree of force, from that gentle swell which indicates a tranquil flow
of emotion, to that firm and swelling energy which is the appropriate
expression of the language of elevated feeling. With the wider intervals
it should be used only f