tu. Sect. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 199. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 200. 27. In what cases do we rely on testimony? To what extent do we rely on this? In what cases have we the evidence of induction? What is a sophism? What is said of them? Mention four species of sophism. Explain the ignoratio elenchi, and illustrate. Explain and illustrate the petitio principii. 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. 15. 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 imagin 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? Is imagination an original and independent faculty? 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 Gar 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. A 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. 33. 214. What have some supposed respecting the utility of the imagin ation? 34. 35. 96. 37. 38. 39. Why is this a reflection on the Creator? In whom has the power of the imagination shown itself most conspicuously? What is said of them? In what instances has the imagination contributed to national glory and national happiness? Mention other benefits of it. What has Addison said of it? 40. 215. In what important point of view may it be considered? 41. 42. 43. What remark is made on this? 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 On what does the action of the will depend? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 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. What incidents in the life of Johnson and Napoleon does this explain? 22. 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? 29. 221. The second cause of apparitions? Qu. Sect. 31. 222. How was he relieved? 32. 223. The third cause of apparitions? 33. State the case recorded in the Philosophical Journal. 34. 224. The fourth cause of apparitions? 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. What general remark is made in confirmation of this cause? What proportion of the blood is sent immediately from the heart into the brain? In what way does nitrous oxide affect the brain? What opinion do these facts seem to confirm? By what fact is it controverted? 40. 225. State the fact related in illustration of the fourth cause of appari 1. 227. Meaning of the term insanity? 2. 3. What do we usually understand by it? 4. 228. What is remarked of disordered sensations? 5. 6. 7. 229. The distinction between sensation and perception? When are our perceptions likely to be disordered? State facts on this subject. 8. 9. 10. 230. What conviction is essential to a sound mind? What fact is related of the Rev. S. Browne? 11. 12. 231. What produces insanity of consciousness? 13. State the case of the watchmaker. 14. 232. Is original suggestion or relative more frequently disordered? Why is the latter so frequently so? The most common form of alienated reason? and illustrate. 26. 237. Describe the case of Don Quixote. 27. 238. How do men of sensibility sometimes become mentally disordered! 29. 239. Three kinds of insanity, or alienation of the power of belief? 30. 31. What is remarked of the first kind when the inability to believe is 4. 5. Are these divisions strongly marked? In what do they differ? How is it ascertained that they differ in their nature? 6. 241. What is essential to the action of the sensibilities? 7. 8. 9. How is this shown? If our intellectual powers were dormant, what would be the effect on the sensibilities? To what is the activity of the sensibilities proportioned ? 10. 242. How are the sensibilities divided? 17. 12 By whom was the term pathematic introduced? To what state of mind is it applicable? 13. 243. What different views do the natural and moral sensibilities appear to take of the objects in respect to which they are called into ex ercise? 14. 15. 16. 17. What would be the effect of obliterating from man's constitution his In this case, by what would his movements be dictated? What teaches him to act with reference to the glory of God? 19. 20. 21. What other remark is made of our moral sensibilities? 22. 245. Do brutes possess moral sensibilities? 23. 24. What do they possess in common with man? What, then, is the ground of distinction between men and brutes? 25. 246. How are the natural sensibilities divided? 26. 27. 28. Which come first in the order of time and nature, the emotions or the desires? How is this fact otherwise stated? Show that this fact is necessarily so. 29. 247. How are the moral sensibilities divided? 30. To what do the obligatory feelings correspond? PART I-CLASS I. CHAPTER I. 1. 248 Why can not a verbal explanation be given of the emotions? 2. 3. Why can not any thing simple be defined? How do we learn the nature of the emotions? 4. 245. The place of the emotions considered with reference to other men tal acts? Qu Sect. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. What is said of the desires? What do we mean when we speak of any thing as pleasant to us? On what are our desires founded? On what our emotions? 10. 250. By what are our desires followed?__ 11. 12. 13. By what our obligatory feelings? How is it shown that our emotions are founded on our intellections? 14 251. By what are emotions characterized? How do they differ from the desires and feelings of moral obliga tion? What are some of the varieties of our emotions? Why is it essential to understand the distinctions that exist in the sensibilities? CHAPTER II. 1. 252. The two characteristics of the emotion of beauty? 2. 253. What objects do we call beautiful? 3. What do we mean, then, when we say an object has beauty? 4. 254. How are beautiful objects distinguished from other objects? Why does the mind experience a pleasant emotion in view of cer tain objects? 5. 6. 255. How may the term beauty be regarded? and why? 7. 8. 9. 10. What are some of the occasions of the emotions of beauty? What does a mathematician regard as beautiful? a logician? 11. 256. Are all objects equally fitted to cause the emotion of beauty? 12. 13. 257. What must be taken for granted in answering this question? How do we know that we have a susceptibility to beauty? Have the emotions of beauty fixed causes or antecedents? 14. 15. 16. 17. Can the antecedents exist and not be followed by these emotions? 18. 258. What figure is universally regarded as beautiful? 19. 20. What was Hogarth's line of beauty? In what natural objects do we find this line? 21. 259. What two kinds of beauty are mentioned here? What other forms of beauty are mentioned, and what is said of them? What does Mr. Alison say of the tripod? What explanatory remark is made in connection with the foregoing statements, and how is it illustrated? 30. 262. What is said of the beauty of colors? 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. By what considerations is this opinion supported? What is remarked of infants? What of savages? What of the uneducated? Who are most pleased with gaudy colors? 36. 263. What additional proof is given of the fact that colors are of them ៖ 37. selves fitted to cause emotions of beauty? What facts are mentioned of the early life of James Mitchell? |