Part 2

The Phonograph 88

Stuttering--Stammering 92

Cathode of a Vocal Sound 103

IV.--OUR MOTHER TONGUE 110

National Traits of Character 112

The American Nation 120

Centripetal and Centrifugal 124

Rotation of Centripetal and Centrifugal Action 130

V.--NATIONALITY AND RACE DISTINCTIONS 137

Idiomatic Expression 141

Origin of Anglo-Saxon Race and Idiom.

Origin of German Race and Idiom.

Relationship Supposed to Exist as between the German and English Nations 148

Language and Motion 151

Difference in their Mode of Breathing as between Anglo-Saxons and Germans 159

Rise and Fall, or Rhythm 160

Stress 174

VI.--PHYSIOLOGY OF VOICE IN RELATION TO WORDS 178

Significance of the Term "School" of Singing 187

Breathing 198

Song, Singers, and Physiology 210

INDEX 223

DUALITY OF VOICE

DUALITY OF VOICE

AN OUTLINE OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH

INTRODUCTION

By the time this book will appear, nearly six years will have elapsed since I discovered the voice of the œsophagus, and almost five since I published a preliminary account of this discovery in a book entitled The Basic Law of Vocal Utterance. This discovery, though the most comprehensive and far-reaching of any that has ever been made, not only in regard to the voice, but in regard to the better comprehension of our nature and our entire human existence, has remained as unknown to the world as if it had never been made. Yet some day, when its importance is recognized, it will take rank in the annals of the history of the human race as second to no other discovery that has influenced and shaped human thought in the proper recognition of the origin and the nature of man, spiritual as well as physical, his abilities and his limits, and his relative position, influence, and destiny in the economy of the universe.

Edgar S. Werner. New York, 1894.