part whatever quantity he may desire. On the other hand,
immutable syllables, while not admitting the wave and the median stress,
are eminently fitted to receive the more forcible forms of radical
stress; and mutable syllables, with their abrupt closes, permit of
perfect exemplifications of thorough and final stress.

=Movement=, though it depends for its slower and more expressive forms
upon the capacities of syllables for the reception of long quantities,
is, in its more rapid forms, quite independent of syllabic structure,
and dependent only on the will of the speaker; hence it may be spoken of
as being altogether under his control. A medium rate of utterance is,
with respect to time, the natural expression of an equable flow of
thought. The livelier emotions should be indicated by quicker rates, and
hence, cheerfulness, joy, vivacious dialogue, animated narration,
naturally find their expression in movements more or less brisk, with
short quantities, varied intonations, and pitch higher than the normal;
the more vehement emotions, eagerness, anger, excited anxiety, demand
simply heightened forms of these modes. Contrariwise, thought of grave
and meditative character, admiration, reverence, and all the deeper and
calmer feelings, require a deliberative, slow-timed utterance, with long
quantities for accented syllables, and extended time for even unaccented
syllables. As these serious emotions become stronger and deeper, the
syllabic quantities become proportionately longer, and with impressive
median swells, orotund quality, low pitch, waves and simple intonations
of the second, frequent phrases in monotone, and an occasional tremor,
constitute the most impressive utterance of adoration.

_Occasionally an abrupt change in quantity, or movement, may be employed
as a mode of emphasis_, either positive or negative; for example, in a
current of rapid movement, a word may be put into strong relief by being
uttered with quantity much extended; contrariwise, a parenthetical or
explanatory phrase is usually touched upon lightly and with a more rapid
movement than that of the current in which it is found.

=Pause= _may be used as an element in the expression of thought simply,
that is, as a help to the interpretation of the mere sense of the words
read_; or, _more emphatically, as an element in the expression of
feeling and emotion_. As interpretative of thought, pauses should
correspond mainly with the graphical marks of pu