Qu. Sect 24. 25. 26. 27. 161. 28. 162 29. Are our trains of associated thought voluntary? In what does our chief power in quickening and strengthening the How do we set about to recall any circumstances which we wish Give the illustration furnished by Dr. Beattie. 30, 163. What are the two prominent marks of a good memory! 31. 32. Do men of philosophic minds usually possess a ready memory! 33. 164 The first direction for improving the memory? 34. 35 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 165. 43. 44. 45. 166. 46. 47. The remark of Stewart on this point? The advantage of always endeavoring to understand what we study? The second direction, etc.? Illustrate the benefit of such classification. The third direction? How illustrated? Two advantages of studying geography with maps, etc.? Give another illustration of this rule in the reading of history. Mention an instance of the utter violation of this rule. What other help to memory is here noticed? What remark is made of Dr. Johnson on this point? Show how it is that a strict regard to truth is a help to memory. CHAPTER VIII. 1. 167. What opinion of Lord Bacon is here noticed? What does our experience teach us on this point? 7. 163. On what does the ability of the mind to restore its past experiences depend? What admitted facts render this probable? What is the proximate cause of the great acceleration of the intel. lectual acts in cases of drowning? 11. 169. What fact is stated of the influence of disease on the mind? 12. 170. State the facts related of the American traveler. 13. 171. State those related of the young German woman. 14, What inferences did Coleridge draw from this instance? 15. 172. What is implied in the term education? 16. 17. 18. What is said of the effect of a single remark? What effect should such a consideration have on us? Why is it so important to introduce truth and right principles into the mind of a child? 19. 73. What other practical remark is suggested by these considerations? What objection has been raised to the Scriptural doctrine of a linal judgment? 20 21. 22. $3. What gives it all its plausibility? Can the power of reminiscence ever die? Qu Sect CHAPTER IX. 1. 174 To what are we indebted for our knowledge of the operations of the faculty of reasoning? Is reasoning identical with, or involved in, consciousness? 3. 4. 5. 6. .. 8. 17 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 176 17. 18. 19. What is it that gives us a knowledge of our own existence? What enables us to reason? For what knowledge are we indebted to reason? What is the office of reason? How is reasoning defined? What are propositions? May a proposition exist in the mind without being expressed in What are the parts of a proposition? How have propositions been divided? To what are propositions compared? How many propositions are essential to every process of reasoning? Are they brought into existence by an act of volition? 20. 177 Give an illustration of the preceding statement. 21. 22. Illustrate the manner in which this consecution of propositions takes place. What is all the direct voluntary power possessed in such cases? 23. 178. State the grounds of the selection of propositions. 24. 25. How does the mind discover the agreement or disagreement of the propositions presented to it? In what does the difference in the various kinds of reasoning consist? 26. 179. On what does reasoning necessarily proceed? 27. 28. 29. Show that this must be so. Are the propositions assumed always expressed? 30. 180. What things are assumed in reasoning? 31. 181. Do all persons possess the faculty of reasoning to the same extent ? On what does the difference depend? Three things. Why is premeditation essential to one who would reason well on any subject? 35. 182. What is said of the power of habit in reasoning? and illustrate. 26. 183. The great instrument of reasoning? 37. 38, What is said of persons who are suddenly called upon to state their arguments in public debate? What is said of Oliver Cromwell? 39 184. Give another illustration. 40 42. To what is this perplexity often owing? What are these mental habits referred to? CHAPTER X. 1. 185. In what respects does demonstrative reasoning differ from every What topics come under this head? What are the subjects of moral reasoning? and illustrate. 6. 186. What is essential to every process of reasoning? Qu. Sect. 7. 8. 9. .0. What are the preliminary truths in demonstrative reasoning? Mention certain general facts in natural philosophy which may be considered as first principles. What are axioms? and illustrate. Can we complete a demonstration by their assistance alone? 11. 187 Why is it necessary, in demonstrations, to consider but one side of a question? and illustrate. 12. How does this differ from moral reasoning? and illustrate. 13. 183. Do demonstrations admit of different degrees of belief? 14. 15. Show why they can not. What is the case in moral reasoning, and why? 16. 189. What is the proper use of diagrams in demonstrations? 17. 18. 19. 20 In what respect does demonstrative reasoning resemble every cthe! kind of reasoning? How does it appear that diagrams are not essentially necessary in What remark does Cudworth make on this subject? CHAPTER X1. 、 3. 4. 190. The subjects of moral reasoning? Show its importance. Does skill in demonstrative reasoning make one a good reasoner i moral subjects also? The effect of demonstrative reasoning on the mind? 5. 191. Point out the resemblance and dissimilarity between this and moral 6. 7. 8. 9. reasoning. Which kind is attended with knowledge? Are the conclusions from moral reasoning necessarily doubtful? What is moral certainty ? 10. 192. What do we mean by analogy? What is analogical reasoning? Illustrate. 11. 12. What is said of the belief which attends such reasoning? 18. 194. What is remarked of accumulated arguments in demonstrations? What in moral reasoning? and the grounds of this opinion? Illustrate. 19. 20. CHAPTER XII. 1. 195. What is logic? and its object? 2. 196. The first direction in relation to reasoning? What is the opposite of a desire of the truth? What are the great enemies of truth? 3. 4 5. Why is this rule of importance particularly in public debate? 6. 197. The second rule? 7. 8. 9. In what ways is this rule often disregarded? The practice of special pleaders? At what should dialecticians aim? 10. 193. The third rule ? 11. 12 13. What kind of evidence have we when the inquiry is one of a purely abstract nature? What in the examination of material bodies? In which is the conclusion most relied on? u. Rect 14. 15. 16. 17. In what cases do we rely on testimony? To what extent do we rely on this? In what cases have we the evidence of ind action? 18. 199. What is a sophism? 19 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 200. 27. What is said of them? Mention four species of sophism. Explain the ignoratio elenchi, and illustrate. Explain the non causa pro causa, and illustrate. What further direction is given? What remark is made of the meaning of words in every language? 28. 201. What other sophism is common? 29. 30. 31. In what does this fallacy consist? What is said of Alexander and Charles XII.? What of Cæsar and Catiline? 32. 202. What remark is here made of adherence to our opinions? Why should we not always give up an opinion when objections are raised which we can not answer? 33. 34 203. What is said of contending for victory instead of truth? How is it often done?· 35. 36. 37. 38. What remark has been made of persons that addict themselves to this practice? The cause of such a result? What is said of Chillingworth? CHAPTER XIII. 1. 204. Under what general head does imagination come? 2. 3. With what are we apt to associate the exercises of the imagination! What is said of one that possesses a creative and well-sustained imagination? 4. 205. What further remark is made of the imagination? 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. What does D'Alembert say of it? What does he say of Archimedes? In what three respects do the deductive and imaginative powers resemble each other? In what do they differ? What are the objects of each? Contrast the two. 11. 206. What is imagination? 12. 13. 14. 13. What are the materials from which new creations are made? How is the difference between the imagination of the mass of man- Why do we speak of imagination as a complex operation of the mind? 16. 207. State in full the process of the mind in the creations of the i nagin ation. 17. 208. What name do we give to this complex state, or series of states of 18. 19. 20. the mind? Why is it important to have a single term expressive of it? 21. 209. The illustration of Dr. Reid? 22. 210. What question naturally suggests itself here ? 23. 24 How is it answered? Is any voluntary power exercised over our conceptions? Qu. Sect. 25. 211. How was Milton enabled to form his happy conception of the an 26 den of Eden? Has his conception ever been realized on earth? 27. 212 What erroneous opinion on this subject has widely prevailed? Give an illustration. 28. 29. 30. What practical application does this view admit of? 31. 213. How is this subject illustrated in the case of Byron? 32. Quote the remark of Sir Joshua Reynolds. 3.3. 214. What have some supposed respecting the utility of the imagin ation? 31. 33 Why is this a reflection on the Creator? In whom has the power of the imagination shown itself most con spicuously? What is said of them? In what instances has the imagination contributed to national glory and national happiness? Mention other benefits of it. 40. 215. In what important point of view may it be considered? Why are many able reasoners so dull and uninteresting? CHAPTER XIV. 1. 216. Are the operations of the mind always uniform? What occasions these deviations from fixed laws 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. On what does the action of the will depend? On what the sensibilities? The two-fold action of the intellect? Which is first in the order of time? Which in the order of nature? What is essential to the action of the external intellect? 10. 217. What subject does this fact elucidate? What kind claim our especial attention, and why? 15. 218. What two things are to be noticed in explanation of them Illustrate the fact that excited conceptions are called into existence by anxiety of mind, etc. Illustrate the fact in the case of Mrs. Howe. 21. 219. What is said of excited conceptions of sound? and illustrate. 22. What incidents in the life of Johnson and Napoleon does this ex plain? 23. 220. What is the first cause of permanently vivid conceptions or appa· What fact is it necessary to keep in mind in order to understand the applicability of this cause How is this illustrated? How does this case explain the cause of apparitions? How is this explanation confirmed? 19. 221. The second cause of apparitions |