Today, I can say with Terence, "I am a man and nothing that is
human is alien to me." And I can go a step further and say to
those who are afflicted as I was afflicted: "I have been a
stammerer. I know your troubles, your sorrows, your
discouragements. I understand with an understanding born of a
costly experience."

Man or woman, boy or girl, wherever you are, my heart goes out to
you. Whatever your station in life, rich or poor, educated or
unlettered, discouraged and hopeless, or determined and resolute,
I send you a message of hope, a message which, in the words of Dr.
Russell R. Conwell, "has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the
thousands of lives I have been privileged to watch. And the
message is this: Neither heredity nor environment nor any
obstacles superimposed by man can keep you from marching straight
through to a cure, provided you are guided by a firm driving
determination and have normal health and intelligence." To that
end I commend to you the succeeding pages of this volume, where
you will find in plain and simple language the things which I have
spent more than thirty years in learning. May these pages open for
you the door to freedom of speech--as they have opened it for
hundreds before you.





PART II