41. Sect 19. To what are our thoughts and feelings during sleep compare 21. 22. 23. When are our conceptions most distinct and vivid? and why 24. 39 The second cause of the apparent reality of dreams? Illustrate. 25 26 In what case does belief always attend our perceptions? 27. 100. How do we estimate time in dreaming? and illustrate. Repeat the anecdote related by Dr. Abercrombie. Relate that of Count Lavalette. 28. 29. 30. 0 How is this estimate of time explained by soma? The true explanation? 3). 52. Repeat the remarks of Stewart. PART II. CHAPTER I. 1. 102. In what way have we seen the mind connected with the waterial world? 2. 3. 4. 5. 103. The two sources of knowledge according to him? 6. 7. 8. Mention certain ideas which could not be derived fron external things. What might be styled the "internal sense?" The name commonly given to it? 9. 104. In making the human soul a subject of inquiry, what distinction may Could we have had any knowledge without the senses? 13. 105. Is, then, the whole amount of our knowledge to be ascribed directly 14. 15. 16. to an external source? What is all that can be said with truth on this point? What are ideas of reflection? Are the sources of human thought, the internal and the external distinct or confounded? 17. 106. Mention some of the notions which are to be ascribed to the intern 18. 19 20 21. 22. $3 24, al sense. Can the mind remain for any length of time inactive ? What do you mean by thinking? Is its origin internal or external? The origin of doubting? What is all we can say of it? How is belief occasioned? What do we denominate certainty? 25. 07. Mention other ideas of internal origin? How is it determined that these are of internal origin ! C Sect CHAPTER II. 1. 108. How is the worl suggestion used? 2. 3. 4. 5. Who first proposed the use of this term? What are some of the ideas which Stewart attributes to it? 6. 109. What is said of the idea of existence ? 7. 8 The origin of the notion of mind? The origin of personal identity? 9. 10. Why does the author decline to explain the nature of unity? How has it been defined? 1. 12. 13. 111 14, 15. 16. How does the idea of it originate? What the process by which we form numbers? The nature of succession? What simple fact forms the occasion on which the idea of sua es sion is suggested to the mind? Why can it not be defined? Show that it can not be referred to any thing external. 17. 112. The distinction between it and the idea of duration? 18. 19. Which exists first in the order of nature, succession or duration? Why do we know nothing of duration when we are asleep? 20. 113. How is the priority of the notion of succession proved? two facts. 21. 114. What is time? How is it shown not to be external? What other consideration shows the same thing? 29. 116. When did we first get the idea of space? 30. 31. What is it supposed may have been the original occasion of the rise of this idea? What other supposition still more probable is mentioned? 32. 117. The origin of the idea of power? 33. Can there be any accountable existence without it? and why not? 34. 118. State the three-fold occasion of the origin of this idea? 35. 119. The origin of the ideas of right and wrong? 36. 37. Show that this arrangement of them has an important connection with the theory of morals. Can right ever become wrong, or wrong right? 38. 120. Which are first in the order of nature, right and wrong, or merit 39. 40. and demerit? What is implied in merit and demerit? Can the ideas of merit and demerit be defined? 41. 121. How is reason defined? 42 43. Why does the author prefer the term suggestion, as designative of the origin of the ideas we have been considering, to the word reason? Mention other ideas which should be referred to suggestion. 44. 122 Is original suggestion the basis of ideas only? 45. 46 The basis of the comparative intellect? Mention several elementary propositions which are prerequisites the exercise of the deductive faculty. a. Sect. CHAPTER III. 1. 123 The second source of our internal knowledge? 2. 3. 4. What is consciousness? What three distinct notions does every instance of consciousness embrace? Illustrate. 5. 124. Can we be conscious of thoughts or emotions that have agitated as in times past? 6. ገ. 8. 9. 125. 10. 11. Can we be conscious of material or immaterial objects which aro external to the mind? Illustrate. Are we conscious of the existence of our own minds? Of what, then, are we conscious? What is said of the belief attendant on the exercise of consciousness? The reason of such belief? What is said of one that seriously rejects the testimony of his own consciousness? 12. 126. Are the ideas, states of mind, etc., that come within the range of con sciousness, few or many? Mention several of the various degrees of belief that are matters of consciousness. Mention the names of other intellectual acts and operations that are expressive of the subjects of our consciousness. What emotions does it include ? What complex emotions or passions does it include ? What moral and religious emotions also? What consideration shows us that this enumeration might be car ried to a much greater extent ? CHAPTER IV. 1. 127. What is remarked of the expression, "The mind brings its thoughts together," etc? What ultimate fact in our mental nature is spoken of here? 5. 128. What is said of the relations of things and of thoughts? and illus. 6. trate. Mention several terms that express the ideas of relatio . 7. 129. What are correlative terms? 8, The advantage derived from their use? 9. 130. Why is it difficult to classify our relations? Repeat the seven classes enumerated. What is said of the relation of identity and diversity? Show the utility of this relation. 14. 131. What is said of the relation of degree? and illustrate. 15 16. By what terms are such relations expressed? Show how, from this relation alone, the importance of the power of relative suggestion is shown. 17. 132. In what respect are the relations of proportion peculiar? 18. In what are they particularly discoverable? 19. 133. Under what circumstances do we form the idea of the relations of Why can we form no idea of the position of the universe considere as a whole? What is meant by the words high and low, near and distant? Z z Qu. Sect. 24. 134. How do time and place resemble each other? Are our notions of time relative or absolute ? Under what aspect is all time contemplated? 25 26 27. 28. What do we mean when we say of any event, it happer ed on such a day say July 4th, 1776? and illustrate. Under what head, then, may all dates be classed? 29. 135. What is meant by relations of possession? 30. 31 32 33 31. 35 136 38 37. 38 How soon do we learn this relation? and illustrate. What class of words have their origin here? Show that the verb "to be" often expresses this relation. What does the notion of cause and effect, as it first exists in the What constitutes the full notion of cause? What of effect? To what do we give the name of events? 39. 137. Mention several terms in which the relation of cause and effact is embodied, and illustrate. 40. 138. What connection has relative suggestion with reasoning in general” What relations are embraced in demonstrative reasoning? What in moral reasoning? 41. 42. CHAPTER V. i. 139. Why do we take up the subject of association and memory before that of the reasoning powers? 2. 140. What is mental association? Give an illustration of it. Another, from Chateaubriand. 5. 141. Do we know why it is that our thoughts and feelings succeed one another in a regular train? What is the extent of our knowledge on this subject? What is meant by the laws of association? Repeat the most important of them. 9. 142. What do we mean by saying that new trains of ideas and new emo tions are occasioned by resemblance? How is this fact explained? Illustrate it. Quote the remark of Lander. Is the association which is founded on resemblance limited to objecta of sight? Repeat the poetry on this subject. 15. 143. Show in what way resemblance operates as an associating princi ple. Give several illustrations of this. Repeat the comparison of Akenside. Why do we often speak of nature as animated, etc.? 19. 144. What is the law of contrast? Give the outlines of Count Lemaistre's story of the leper. The foundation of antithesis? 92. 145. The law of contiguity? and illustrate. When we speak of the crucifixion of our Savior, what thoughts are suggested to our minds? What when the American Revolution is named? Which of the primary laws of association is the most extensive in its influence? What forms the basis of the calendar of the mass o men? lllustrate. 18 146 The law of cause and effect? 2. 3. Show that this is one of the primary principles of our mental asso ciations. Illustrate the law. Mention the incident related by Locke. Repeat the remark of Shakspeare. CHAPTER VI. Repeat the four secondary laws of mental association. To what are the primary and secondary laws compared ? 4. 148. Repeat the first law of lapse of time. 3. 6. 7. Illustrate this law. What apparent exception to this law is mentioned? 8. 149. Repeat the law of repetition, and illustrate. 9. What is said of the operation of this law in particular arts and pro fessions? 10. 150. Repeat the law of coexistent emotion. il. 12. Why are bright objects more readily recalled than faint ones? Why are those events in our history that were attended with great joy or sorrow longest remembered? 13. 151. In what respect are there original differences in the mental consti. tution of men? 14. 15. 16. In what channel do the associations of the great mass of mankind What original differences are often seen in men? Illustrate. 17. 152. What two classes of persons are spoken of here as originally dif ferent? 18. 19. 20. How does Milton illustrate the difference? What other thing is mentioned as modifying our trains of thought? CHAPTER VII. 1. 153. Why is the subject of memory taken up after that of association? To what is memory essential? Is it a simple or complex action of the intellectual principle? What is meant by this? Illustrate the distinction between our conceptions and memory. 8. 154. In what cases is our belief controlled by our remembrances? How do we know when to rely on our memory? 9. 10. What would be our condition without such a reliance? 11. 155. What is remarked of the ability to remember? Relate several instances of great memory. What kind of memory prevails among uneducated people? 16. 157. How is this illustrated by Shakspeare? 17. 158. What is philosophic memory? 20. 159. Under what two forms does every department of science press 21. 22 itself to our notice? Which form does the circumstantial memory rapidly embrace? 23. 160 What is intentional recollection? |