From Aeschyros to Shakespeare. Word and action perfectly suited and adapted to each other.

The personal presence - the oral utterance - the gesture of perfect oratory, with the impersonation in lifelike manner as the artist-actor alone is capable, this constitutes real power in Dramatic Art. One gifted with great imagination can read (alone) the perfectly written Drama and enjoy it, supplying all the characters by force of the vivid imagination (as did the poet in the writing).

In fact, it may be truly said that few if any "artists" can perfectly portray the ideals and language of the written drama, yet it serves to illustrate:

Impersonated attributes (of power, Joy, wonder, Love), the Gods and Goddesses of Homeric verse;

Representation of persons, periods, institutions abuses - typical heroes and heroines of any particular country or age;

Perfect presentation of human virtues, failings, benefactions and crimes.

The perfect Actor (Dramatic Artist) is the Genius or the Angel.

That is most perfect in Art which expresses most perfectly the thoughts, feelings, emotions, intent of the author, artist, or composer. Therefore it may be truly said:

The perfect "School" of Dramatic Expression - presentation has not yet arrived - bat one can safely say that the system of Deisarte probably is the nearest to perfection that has been given to the world.

Ultimately there will be no need of dramatic art Froebel is in Teaching - i. e., the recognition of the unfolding and questioning from within the mind alike of the child and the adult, and supplying the answer before the question is asked - the leader of a new age.

Ultimately Education will be like breathing - like physical growth. Life itself is the primal Educator.

We have seen the much-lauded "orator" of an occasion try his "Art," his carefully prepared and rounded sentences and periods, his studied and perfectly "correct" gestures, his much-thought-of peroration, upon a multitude to whom the occasion was an inspiration; and the "orator" was received cordially, applauded where the sentiment appealed to the people, but - the "finished" oration was valued most at its close.

When followed by another, equal in scholarship and in choice of language, who gave utterance in simple language to the spirit of the day and hour, the multitude was thrilled, filled, pervaded, and finally completely overwhelmed by the Master Orator who uttered what the day and hour meant to the people: The Soul of Expression was there!

The highest expression possible - and that which is the only excuse for oratory or the Drama - is to have a message, thought, or purpose, or Ideal of beauty, to express and to give it in the simplest language and manner; sincerity is the best "magnetism." Periods of history and states of scholarship where "oratory" of an ornate kind is required, pass with the conditions producing them, and the world of human thought returns to the simplest and best forms of expression.

To live the poem - oration - drama - this is the Art of Life - to be.