4.  The values indicated can be changed only by additional values justified by gesture.  Thus in the phrase:  “This medley of glory and honor,”—­the value of the word medley can and must be changed; but a gesture is necessary, for speech is only a feeble echo of gesture.  Only gesture can justify a value other than that indicated in this demonstration.  This value is purely grammatical, but the gesture may give it a superlative idea, which we call additional value.  The value of consonants may vary in the pronunciation according to their valuation by the speakers.

More or less value is given to the degrees noted and to be noted, as there is more or less emotion in the speaker.  This explains why a gesture, which expresses an emotion of the soul, justifies changing the grammatical value in the pronunciation of consonants.

5.  Even aside from additional values, the gesture must always precede the articulation of the initial consonant.  Otherwise to observe the degree would be supremely ridiculous.  The speaker would resemble a skeleton, a statue.  The law of values becomes vital only through gesture and inflection.  Stripped of the poetry of gesture and inflection, the application of the law is monstrous.

To place six degrees upon pleasing without gesture, is abominable.

We now understand the spirit of gesture, which is given to man to justify values.  It is for him to decide whether the proposition is true or not.  If we deprive our discourse of gestures, no way is left to prove the truth of values.  Thus gesture is prescribed by certain figures, and we shall now see from a proposition, how many gestures are needed, and to what word the gesture should be given.

The Conjunction Continued—­Various Examples.

The degree of value given to the conjunction, may be represented by the figure 8.

Let us justify this valuation by citing these two lines of Racine: 

    “The wave comes on, it breaks, and vomits
      ’neath our eyes,
    Amid the floods of foam, a monster
      grim and dire.”

The ordinary reader would allow the conjunction and to pass unperceived, because the word is not sonorous, and we accord oratorical effects only to sonorous words.  But the man who sees the meaning fully, and who adds and, has said the whole.  The other words are important, but everything is implied in this conjunction.

Racine has not placed and here to disjoin, but to unite.

We give another example of the conjunction: 

Augustus says to Cinna: 

    “Take a chair Cinna, and in all things heed
    Strictly the law that I lay down for thee.”

Let us suppress the isolation and silence of the conjunction, and there is no more color.

Augustus adds: 

    “Hold thy tongue captive, and if silence deep
    To thy emotion do some violence”—­