Magician, actor or what?

[Mark]

"A conjuror is not a juggler; he is an actor playing the part of a magician, an artist whose fingers have more need to move with deftness than with speed."

It's a question whether Houdin actually tried to describe what a conjuror is, or whether he wanted to make a clear difference between conjurors and jugglers/flourishers. As for the latter one, it would of course be way more valid than for the first one.