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highest affairs of State, in legal trials, in debating 

 assemblies, the relatively weak emotion of the ideal 

 in man is nearly always a short-range emotion. All 

 displays of eloquence and rhetoric in the male are 

 intimately connected with the emotions of the fight. 

 There is no situation in which a civilized man is so 

 suddenly and so completely transformed into a 

 creature of the short-range emotions of the fight as 

 when he becomes an orator in public affairs. The 

 gesticulations of eloquence, the beating and thump- 

 ing motions of emphasis, the flashing eye, the excited 

 visage in which the expressions varying from the 

 sublime to the sinister rapidly succeed each 

 other, are all characteristic of early man in the 

 ecstasy of the emotions of the fight. 



Lecky has described with striking effect the 

 appearance of Gladstone, with many of the aspects 

 and accompaniments of emotion in the fighting 

 savage, delivering with great eloquence a speech on a 

 high moral cause. I have often seen members of 

 the native fighting races of South Africa, like the 

 Zulus, after drugging themselves with narcotics, 

 wrought up to the highest flights of rhetoric in 

 which suddenly jumping on their feet they deliver 

 to empty space long periods of fiery eloquence 

 and declamation all imbued with the passion and 

 coloured with ideals of the fight. 



