The Power of the Spoken Word Florence Scovel Shinn - "The Power of the Spoken Word" is a collection of the most influential author's lectures, which have been gathered, made into the book and published posthumously by her student.Florence Scovel Shinn taught metaphysics in New York for many years. Her meetings were well attended and in that way she was the means of bringing the message to a considerable number of people. Her books have had a wide circulation not only in America but abroad. They seem to have a knack of finding their way to remote and unexpected places in Europe and other parts of the world. Now and again we meet someone who came into Truth through finding a Florence Shinn book in the most improbable location.