Qu. Sect. 24. Why is it important to attend to it? 25. 31. To what sense would you ascribe the feelings expressed by to terms uneasiness, weariness, sickness, and the like? 26. 27. What remarks are made of hunger and thirst? Why is it difficult to state what sense they should be ascribed to} 28. 32. What two things always exist when we speak of extension, or re sistance, or heat, or color, etc.? 29. 30. 31. 22. Do they resemble one another? How, then, can one give us a knowledge of the other? How would you illustrate this? What is the relation between the sensation and the outward objecti CHAPTER VI. 1. 33. The most valuable of the five senses? 2. 3. 4. 5 Show its superiority over the touch. To what is the eye compared? The medium on which it acts? To what science does a description of the eye belong? 6. 34. What would be the effect if the rays of light that first strike the eye were to continue on, in the same direction, to the retina? How is this prevented? The last step we are able to trace in the material part of the pie cess in visual perception? How is the image conveyed to the mind? 11. 35. What knowledge do we derive originally from the sense of sight? Can we obtain the idea of color from any other sense? 12. 13. What knowledge is generally, though erroneously, ascribed to the sense of sight? 14. 36. Is extension a direct object of sight? 15. 16. 17. How do we get the idea of extension? Can we get it from any other or all of the four remaining senses ? 18. 37. How do we get the idea of figure? 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. To what is it often attributed? Do we really see prominences or cavities in solid bodies? Why do we then suppose that we really see them? How is the fact that we do not see them proved? 24. 38. What was the problem submitted to Mr. Locke; and his decision? The first idea conveyed to the mind on seeing a globe? How is the truth of this statement shown? Why do we ever attribute to sight the knowledge that is acquired by touch only? 29. 39. How is a knowledge of magnitude first obtained? 30. 31. The difference between tangible and visible magnitude? What fact is stated in support of the doctrine that the knowledge of magnitude is not an original intimation of sight? 33. 40. What is said of the visible magnitude of objects seen in a mist? How is this fact accounted for? 33. 34. To what may it, in part, be attributed? 35. 41. Mention three reasons why the sun and moon seem larger in the be rizon than in the meridian. 36. 42. What is meant by the term distance? 37. 38. 39. 10. Is the perception of distance an acquired or an criginal perception Why do they not appear so now? What facts are stated on this subject? Qu Sect 41. 43. How do we learn to estimate distances? 42. How do landscape and historical painters take alvantage of this fact? 43. 44. Why do we often misjudge in estimating the width of rivers, plains etc.? 41. 45. Why also in estimating the height of steeples, the distance of the stars, etc.? Why does the horizon seem further off than the zenith? 45. 45. The effect, in the apparent distance of objects, of a change in the pu. rity of the air? CHAPTER VII. 1. 48. Repeat the law of habit. 2. 3. 5. How is this known! Can it be resolved into any more general or elementary principle? Mention some of the things to which we apply the term. 6. 47. Is it confined to the mind? 7. 8. J. 48. 10. 11. 49. 12. 13. 14. Its effects on the bodily organs? Mention several respects in which individuals are distinguished from one another by habit. What is said of habits of smell? What facts are stated illustrative of this truth? The effects of habit on taste! What practical view of this subject presents itself here? and illus trate. State the three-fold operation in such cases. The only remedy for one whose habits are so confirmed? and why? 15. 50. Show that the sense of hearing is capable of cultivation. 18. 51. Mention some facts showing that the sense of touch is susceptible of 19. 20. cultivation. The case of John Metcalf? How are books for the blind prepared? 21. 52. Cases of James Mitchell and Julia Brace? 22. What has Diderot conjectured of those that are deprived of both sight and hearing? 23. 53. Show that the law of habit affects the sight. 24. 25. 26. 27. What persons possess the sense of sight in greatest perfection? The case of the lady at Geneva, mentioned by Bishop Burnet? 28. 54. What important remark is here made with reference to our sens 33. 56. Does the mind perceive the complete figure of the object at once? Mr. Stewart's opinion? 34. 35. How, then, does it happen that we appear to see the object at once? 36. 57 Mention some circumstances that tend to confirm Mr. Stewart's viewW! on this subject. 37. 58. Mention the facts stated by Sir Everard Home. .ect CHAPTER VIII. i. 59. What is meant by conceptions? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. How do they differ from the ordinary sensations and perception How do they differ from ideas of memory? How are they regulated in their appearance and disappearance ? 7. 60 What striking fact in regard to our conceptions is mentioned? and illustrate. 8. 9. 19. What facts are related of the celebrated traveler, Carsten Niebuhr? How do you explain the fact that our perceptions of sight are more 11. 61. On what, besides association, does the power of forming conceptions depend? and illustrate. 12. What fact is stated of Beethoven? 13. 62. Illustrate the influence of habit on conceptions of sight. 14. 63. What is remarked of the subserviency of our conceptions to descrip tion? 15. 16. 17. 18. In what does the perfection of description consist? The best rule for making the selection of particulars? Why is it easier to give a happy description from the conception of an object than from an actual perception of it? What great element of poetic power is mentioned? 19. 64. State several facts to show that our conceptions are attended with a momentary belief. 23. 65. In what cases is the belief in our mere conceptions the more evident and striking? 24. What is related of one of the characters sketched by Sir Walter 25. 66. How are the effects produced on the mind by exhibitions of fictitious L. 67. Into what two classes are our mental affections divided? 2. 68. The first characteristic of a simple idea? 3. 69. The second characteristic ? 4. 5. 6. 7. What is essential to a legitimate definition? Why will not this process apply to our simple thoughts and feelings 1 If an individual professes to be ignorant of the terms we use when we speak of simple ideas and feelings, how can we aid him in un derstanding them? (Can you illustrate this remark?) 8. 70. The third characteristic of a simple mental state? D. 10. What does Mr. Locke mean by chimerical ideas? and why docs be 11. 1 Which were first in origin, our simple or our complex states t 12. 13. mind? What simple notions are embraced in our complex rotions of extern Qu. Sect. 14. 15 Which are most numerous, the simple or the complex states of mind i To what may the ability of originating complex thoughts and feelings be compared? 16 72 What opinion has been advanced by some with respect to the pri ority of the simple mental states? and illustrate. 17 How is this appearance explained? 18 73. Are our thoughts and feelings made up of others, or complex in the material sense of the expression? 19. 20. 21. What, then, constitutes their complexness? How is this subject illustrated? How is the language which expresses the composition and complex ity of thought to be regarded? 22. 74. What do you understand by the term analysis? 23. 24 25. What is the distinction between the analysis of material bodies and of complex thoughts? When do we perform mental analysis? Analyze the term government. 26. 75. To what is the doctrine of simplicity and complexness of mental stated applicable? 27. 28. 29. Are the acts of the will simple or complex? What are our simple ideas? Are our ideas of external objects simple or complex? and illustrate. 30. 76. What are some of the elements presented in the term loadstone? Also in the term gold? 31. CHAPTER X. 1. 77. What is abstraction? 2. 3. What are abstract ideas? Into what two classes may they be divided? 4. 78. What are particular abstractions? and illustrate. 5. 6. The distinctive mark of particular abstract ideas? Does the abstraction exist in the object itself, or only in the mind? 7. 79. Does the mind possess a separate faculty adapted solely to this particular purpose? 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Is it nearer to the truth to speak of the process or the power of abstraction? What must necessarily take place in every case of separating a par- What is said of the principle of association in abstraction? What, then, is the process of the mind in abstraction? 13. 80. What are general abstract ideas? 14. 15. How are they distinguished from the great body of our other complex notions? How are general abstract ideas expressed? 16. 81. What fact shows that we find no practical difficulty in forming these 17. 18. classifications? What is the process in classification? 19. 82. Are our early classifications always correct? 20. Why are they sometimes incorrect, and how are they corrected? 21 83. Give. an illustration of our earliest classifications? 22. 84. Does the general idea embrace every particular which makes a part 26. 95 What is said of the ability which the mind possesses of forming such ideas? Qu. Sect. 27. 28. What power does this give us? Why should we not be able even to number without this ability? 29. 86. State the process in forming general abstract truths. 30. 87. What is the difference between the speculations of philosophers and of common men? 31. 32. Why are their general reasonings not so difficult in performance u is apt to be supposed? What is said of the speculations of the great bulk of mankind? 1. 88. What is attention? 2. 3. 4. CHAPTER XI. Is it a separate intellectual faculty? Is the distinct and exclusive mental perception all of attention? What is it that keeps the mind intense and fixed in its position? 5. 89. When is the attention said to be slight, and when intense? 7. 8 9. 90. 0. 11. How do we commonly judge of the degree of attention given to a subject? What is it that induces us to bestow much time on any subject? On what does memory depend, and how is this shown? Quote Shakspeare's remark on this subject. 12. 91. What important direction is here given, and the reason for it! State the disadvantages of attempting to learn too many things at The most important part of education? How is this effected? By what process is the mind weakened? 17. 92. Is it an easy matter to keep the attention fixed on one subject? The cause of the difficulty? 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. By what is intense attention always accompanied? What is the only thing that will confine the minds of men in scico tific pursuits? What does Mr. Locke say on this subject? What anecdote is related of D'Alembert? CHAPTER XII. 1. 93. What are dreams? 2. 3. Why have they excited so much attention? Can any one be found that has never dreamed? 4. 94. The first thing that arrests our attention in dreams? Why did President Edwards think it needful to notice his dreams 1 What else has considerable influence in producing dreams, and p 15. 95. The first cause of the incoherency of dreams? What keeps the train of our thoughts coherent and uniform while we are awake? 17. 97 The second cause of the incoherency of dreams? |