When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
“The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.”
“All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.”