SPEECH 



"Speech is silver ; but silence is golden." 



" Who speaks sows ; who keeps silence reaps." 



HESE, and a host of other sayings, testify 

 to man's weariness of his greatest gift. 



For speech is the greatest gift that the 



ages have brought to him. Indeed the 



man who first felt the word-idea and by 



its help furthered sight by sound, took all 



unconsciously the first step towards wireless telegraphy — 



and to more than wireless telegraphy ! 



It is impossible then to over-estimate the gulf which 

 exists between speech and the lack of it. 



" When speech is given to a soul holy and true. Time 

 and its Dome of Ages become as a mighty whispering 

 gallery round which the utterance runs for ever," writes 

 Martineau. 



True, and yet Carlyle is right also when he says that 

 all " sincere wise speech is but an insignificant outer 

 manifestation of sincere wise thought," and that " under 

 all speech that is good for anything there runs a silence 

 that is better." 



So we play with words, forgetful that comparison itself 

 goes by the board without the help of speech. 



