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: