I have been told I must build up before tearing down; before destroying the old I must put something better in its place. I think it a praiseworthy undertaking, in itself, to destroy the false and the harmful. Besides, we cannot erect a new building before the old one has been removed. As for this _new_ science, I am doing what I can to put it into shape, to give a visible and tangible form to it as it has developed in my mind. The world has been able to do without it so long, those interested in these matters must have a little patience. I specially appeal to the _young_ to devote themselves to these studies and to thus become the precursors in the application of principles which are destined to revolutionize the vocal science of the world; the old being often too old to get out of lifelong practices, no matter how erroneous. I appeal in like manner to the students of medicine, and to those of every other branch of science, whose aim is the knowledge of man in any of, and all, his relations. [Illustration] INDEX Abdomen, 174, 198, 208 Abstract thought, 72 Accent, 178, 180 Æther, 91 Anapest, 167, 175 Anglo-Saxon race, 136 Animal magnetism, 14 Anode, 106 Antibacchius, 175 Atlas, 127 Autology, 56 Bacchius, 175 _Basic Law of Vocal Utterance_, 1, 6, 7 Bladder, 46 Blood, 65 Brain, 46 Breathing, 8, 93, 95, 159, 198, 214 Brinkerhoff, Mme. Clara, 6, 195 Bronchi, 8 Caryatides, 104 Cathode, 106 Centrifugal, 124, 130, 152 Centripetal, 124, 130, 152 Charlatanism, 12 Circulation of sound, 109 Climate, 135 Clothing, 78 Colonization, 140 Congenital deaf, 84 Consonants, 89 Dactylus, 164, 175 Dentistry, 132 Diaphragm, 80, 102, 203 Dissecting room, 211 Douglass, Frederick, 137 Drumhead, 74 Duality, 18 Emphasis, 161, 179 English-speaking peoples, 136 Evolution, 18 Expansion, 90 Expiration, 80, 200 Extirpation, 59 Foreigners, 134, 173, 194 Frænum linguæ, 42 Gadski, Johanna, 196 Generation, 107 German writers, 65 Gounod, 195 Gravitation, 107 Heidenhain, Mr., 14 Heine, 164, 204 Hemispheres, 88 Holmes, Dr. O. W., 12, 123 Huxley, 21 Hypnotism, 52 Iambic measure, 167 Idiomatic expression, 110, 113, 123, 143, 148 Idiom of the sea, 144; of the forest, 146 Immigration, 134 Inspiration, 177, 200 Intonation, 161 Introspection, 4, 56, 68 Kidneys, 46 Laryngoscope, 50 Laryngoscopists, 215 Larynx, 9 Lungs, 46 Lunn, Mr., 167 Matter, 211, 218 Medicine, 220 Metre, 161, 172, 178 Miller, Dr., 212 Mind, 184 Motion, 89, 142, 151 Müller, Prof. Max, 99 Octave, 93 Œsophagus, 198, 208 Palimpsest, 96 Phonograph, 71, 88, 90 Point of gravitation, 101 Posterior surfaces, 68 "R" sound, 104 Race distinctions, 137 Reinforcement, 47 Religion, 17 Replica, 19, 42, 129 Rhythm, 68, 93, 160, 172, 178