Relationship Supposed to Exist as between the German and English Nations 148 Language and Motion 151 Difference in their Mode of Breathing as between Anglo-Saxons and Germans 159 Rise and Fall, or Rhythm 160 Stress 174 VI.--PHYSIOLOGY OF VOICE IN RELATION TO WORDS 178 Significance of the Term "School" of Singing 187 Breathing 198 Song, Singers, and Physiology 210 INDEX 223 [Illustration] DUALITY OF VOICE [Illustration] DUALITY OF VOICE AN OUTLINE OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH INTRODUCTION By the time this book will appear, nearly six years will have elapsed since I discovered the voice of the œsophagus, and almost five since I published a preliminary account of this discovery in a book entitled _The Basic Law of Vocal Utterance_.[1] This discovery, though the most comprehensive and far-reaching of any that has ever been made, not only in regard to the voice, but in regard to the better comprehension of our nature and our entire human existence, has remained as unknown to the world as if it had never been made. Yet some day, when its importance is recognized, it will take rank in the annals of the history of the human race as second to no other discovery that has influenced and shaped human thought in the proper recognition of the origin and the nature of man, spiritual as well as physical, his abilities and his limits, and his relative position, influence, and destiny in the economy of the universe. [1] Edgar S. Werner. New York, 1894.