The Purposeful Orator

              The Purposeful Orator
Edward Amherst Ott

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Every lecture should answer some one of the fundamental inquiries of the mind.  If a lecture is also humorous and highly entertaining, so much the better.



Sour Grapes Catechism
DECEMBER 5, 1908, OVER ELEVEN HUNDRED TIMES

Which has the greater influence on character, heredity or environment?
How are the accumulated benefits of environment saved to the human race?
Do our first-class men come from Universities?
How do we produce our new flowers and fruits?
Is it divorce or marriage that the moralist needs to discuss?
Are there personal and character qualities of the individual that are determined entirely by heredity?
Why has the Juke family of New York produced nearly twelve hundred of the criminals of that state?
Could a born musician live amidst the noises of a machine shop?
Why did congenital idiocy increase 150 per cent in Norway in ten years?
Can environment explain the presence of both good and bad children in the same family?  Can heredity explain it?
Can our teachers and preachers do it all?

These and other interesting questions on the ethics of biology answered by Edward Amherst Ott in his lecture, SOUR GRAPES.



Will Your Dreams Come True Or The Haunted House Catechism
THE CRITICS SAY THIS IS BETTER

Isn't it the man with the healthiest mind who wins success?
What did Napoleon think was the greatest faculty of the mind?
How can we learn to think only practical thoughts?
Why did Macbeth see a dagger in the air, and John on the Island of Patmos a new heaven and a new earth?
Do you believe that poor thinking is the greatest waste?
What kind of work pays the highest wages?
Why did Dickens seclude himself five hours of each day?
Did Luther hit the Devil when he threw the ink bottle at him?
What quality of the mind has led to the invention of two hundred and fifty different creeds in our country?
Why is one man an inventor and another unable to run a machine?
What is the mental difference between Franklin and the Indian who shoots an arrow into the heart of a thunder storm?
Why did Joan of Arc become a great military leader and the other French maidens stay at home?
What quality of the mind makes a man a success in making money?
Why does a designer of clothing receive $35,000 a year while the cutter gets $1,500?
Why did it take from 1817 to 1863 to learn to shoot an oil well?

These and other interesting questions on the secret of mental power answered by Edward Amherst Ott in his lecture, THE HAUNTED HOUSE.




Edward Amherst Ott, The Purposeful Orator and author, combines much of humor and entertainment in his great lectures.



The Spenders Catechism
MR. OTT THINKS THIS ONE WILL LEAD

Is Carnegie right about the ethics of spending money?
Is the hoarded dollar of any value?
What do we get for our tax money?  Is any of it wasted?
What do our Correspondence Schools cost us?
What does an educated man cost the nation?
What do we get for our religious money?  Is it economically spent?
Shall we spend our money to punish people, or to reform them?
Is charity a success or a failure?
What is the greatest expense of this nation?
What do we get for our private money, and could we get more?
What does a poor workman cost?
Do you know what it costs to make a dollar bottle of patent medicine?
What does it cost to advertise?
Does it pay to advertise a town?
How shall we teach economy?
Who spend the most money, men or women?
Is buying a mania?

These and other interesting questions on the ethics of spending answered in Edward Amherst Ott's lecture, THE SPENDERS.



A Fortune for You Or The Story of a City Catechism

Do you want to hear a fascinating story of modern city building?
Have you felt the uplift of local patriotism?
Would you like to see your city grow?  A town can become a city—a city a larger one.
Do you know why the victory of industrial development comes to some cities and not to others?
Would you like to see the churches in your city more active?
Would you like to see perfect streets and beautiful parks?
Do you believe beautiful homes have pure men and happy women?

The How of city development is told in The Story of a City by Edward Amherst Ott of the Municipal Service League of Chicago.




THREE SUCCESSFUL LECTURES
Ott

In the three studies of practical sociology—Sour Grapes, The Haunted House and The Spenders—Mr. Edward Amherst Ott has told one story—the story of human life.

Sour Grapes, which some people would call a study of heredity, is more than that.  It is a study of the moral circumstances and social conditions that arise out of the great law of heredity.  Mr. Ott thinks it is too late in the world's history to argue about heredity.  If there are still some unscientific philosophers, it is something to deplore; but the natural inferences that grow out of the fact of inherent character have not been sufficiently emphasized.

In The Haunted House, he has made a study of the mind in its relation to the practical affairs of life and the ideals of man.  This is not an analysis of the imagination, not a diagnosis.  He has attempted to outline the laws governing its use in the realm of commerce, art and literature, in the hope that some of the erratic things that appear in these various activities of life might be avoided by the ambitious.  This lecture has cost Mr. Ott by far the greatest effort of any that he ever prepared—two and a half years of time, with the assistance of a secretary's careful research.  Upward of two hundred and fifty dollars worth of books were added to his library in the writing of this lecture.

These first two lectures embody all that he wants to say about man in his birth and his personal activities.  He, therefore, followed these two lectures with The Spenders.

The Spenders is purely a sociological study, dealing with the problems of money, and is the most practical lecture of the series.  He began to deliver it as a Commencement lecture in the spring of 1906.  It had been under preparation then for three years.  The morals of spending money will give an opportunity to emphasize from a new standpoint the vital needs of our age.

It was in 1892 that he began to deliver Sour Grapes.  It has undergone constant change, evolution and improvement, and there is a greater call for it each season.

This is also true of The Haunted House, which good critics tell us is a deeper and better lecture than Sour Grapes.  Professor Ott thinks The Spenders will be the best of the series.



AND NOW A NEW ONE A Fortune for You
Mr. Ott's new lecture has grown out of his experience in the Municipal Service League.  If you are loyal to your own city and want to see its growth and civic development, this lecture will interest you.  If you want to see your town aroused, let your people hear The Story of a City.

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