This power of mental image making is always highly developed in great artists. Great musical composers first hear the music in their minds, and then make it intelligible to others through the noted page. The great painter carries objects in his mind long before he puts them on canvas, and is able as well to create new objects suggested by things he has seen. An architect sees in his mind the magnificent temple, when as yet not a stone of which it is to be built has left the quarry. John B. Gough declared that sometimes he was unable to distinguish persons whom he saw in the audience from those which his imagination created.
Wordsworth did not write “The Daffodils” while looking at the flowers as sense objects. It was afterwards, when he saw them as they lived in his imagination, that he wrote of them in a way that has made them real to the imaginations of others.
“For oft when on my couch I lie, In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye, Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.”
I have dwelt upon the physiology of the voice, showing its relation to psychology. In the third and fourth volumes of the Evolution of Expression we deal with the direct relation of psychology to Oratory.
Center, dominant, of the voice 73, 74 Cerebrum, cut of 52 Cerebral connection of cerebral nerves, cut of 62 Chambers, fixed resonant 33 Chambers, transient resonant 33 Clergyman’s sore throat 49-50
Diaphragm, cut of 26 Diaphragm, description of 27 Diaphragm during the expiration of breath and the production 30 of tone, difference in the action of the
Emphasis, four forms of 92 Exercises for forming transient resonant chambers for 83-85 beautiful word elements Exercises for securing freedom and proper direction of tone 81-82 and for establishing right habits in the use of the voice Expiration, muscles of 23, 24
Forming the elements 107, 108 Forming pictures 114-117
Health, relation of the proper use of the voice to 39
Larynx, cut of 16 Larynx, description of 14 Liver, cut of 45 Liver, effect of the voice upon the 47 Loudness 20 Lungs, cut of 21 Lungs, description of 20 Lungs, effect of the voice upon the 40-42
_Ma-za-ska-a_ 87-88 Mental concept 74-76 _M-nom_ 83 _Most-men-want-poise-and-more-royal-margin_ 83-86 Mucous membrane, effect of voice upon the 47