sical being, must achieve perfect mental
equilibrium and must link up the physical with the mental in perfect
harmony.

A permanent cure can rest on no other foundation than perfect
restoration to a truly normal mental and physical condition. When this
has been accomplished and when the synchronization of brain and speech
organs has been brought about, the muscles of speech do not hesitate in
responding to a brain message for the utterance of a word. There is no
longer any sticking, any loose or hurried repetition. In other words,
perfect speech now comes as a logical consequence.

SPEECH SPECIALIST SHOULD HAVE STAMMERED: It is very important that the
speech expert who would promulgate a method for the eradication of
stammering should have, at one time or another, stammered himself.

It is a well-known fact that the imagination cannot conjure up an image
of something that has never been experienced. If you had been born
blind, you would have no mental picture of any color, no matter how
much you might have heard about it. Still your imagination might be a
most prolific one. The utmost feat of the human imagination is to
combine mental pictures to form still other images which are impossible
or absurd or which in their entirety have not been experienced. In
other words, new combinations of images are possible, but an entirely
new or basic picture is beyond the power of the imagination to create.

So, with the specialist who would cure stuttering and stammering. It is
impossible for the man who has never stammered or stuttered to know the
fear that grips the sufferer when he thinks of speaking. It is
impossible for one who has never stammered to imagine what this fear is
like or to know the feeling that accompanies it.

For that reason, it is important that the man who attempts to eradicate
speech defects should have been afflicted himself in order that his
experience may have been acquired first-hand--that the suffering may
have been felt and all of the conditions and situations of the
stammerer may be as familiar to him as to his student.

Value of Moral Influence in the Cure of Stammering: In speaking of the
necessity for good health, both physical and mental, before the
eradication of stammering can take place, we must not overlook a few
words about one particular type of derelict--the will-less or sometimes
wilful individual who persists in indulging in dissipation of every
kind, the individual who, with cocksu