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Amazon.com   p. 176   Gesture is a voiceless speech, a short-
hand dramatic picture. The Hawaiians were adepts in this sort of
art. Hand and foot, face and eye, and those convolutions of gray
matter which are linked to the organs of speech, all worked in
such harmony that, when the man spoke, he spoke not alone with
his vocal organs, but all over, from head to foot, every part
adding its emphasis to the utterance. Von Moltke could be
reticent in six languages; the Hawaiian found it impossible to
be reticent in one.  The hands of the hula dancer are ever going
out in gesture, her body swaying and pivoting itself in
attitudes of expression. Her whole physique is a living and
moving picture of feeling, sentiment, and passion. If the range
of thought is not always deep or high, it is not the fault of
her art, but the limitations of her original endowment,
limitations of hereditary environment, the universal limitations
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