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No
one will deny that such details form a part of the
art of delivery, nor divorce delivery from oratory;
and there can be no justification for disdaining to
learn what has got to be done, especially as
chironomy, which, as the name shows, is the law of
gesture, originated in heroic times and met with the
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approval of the greatest Greeks, not excepting
Socrates himself, while it was placed by Plato among
the virtues of a citizen and included by Chrysippus
in his instructions relative to the education of
children.
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