CHAPTER IV. 



ORATOR AND POET, ACTOR AND DRAMATIST. 



676. Things which during evolution become distinct 

 were of course originally mingled: the doctrine of evolu 

 tion implies this truism. Already we have seen that in the 

 triumphal reception of the conqueror, originally spontane 

 ous and rude but in progress of time giving rise to an estab 

 lished ceremonial elaborated into definite forms, there were 

 germs of various arts and the professors of them. With 

 the beginnings of dancing and music just described, were 

 joined the beginnings of oratory, poetry, acting and the 

 drama; here, for convenience, to be treated of separately. 

 All of them manifestations of exalted emotion, at first mis 

 cellaneous and confused in their display, they only after 

 many repetitions became regularized and parted out among 

 different persons. 



With the shouts of applause greeting David and Saul, 

 came, from the mouths of some, proclamations of their great 

 deeds ; as, by Miriam, there had been proclamation of Yah- 

 veh s victory over the Egyptians. Such proclamations, at 

 first brief and simple, admit of development into long and 

 laudatory speeches; and, with utterance of these, begins 

 the orator. Then among orators occasionally arises one 

 more fluent and emotional than ordinary, whose oration, 

 abounding in picturesque phrases and figures of speech, 

 grows from time to time rhythmical, and hence the poet. 

 The laudations, comparatively simple in presence of the 



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