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 a is apt to be supposed? What is said of the speculations of the great bulk of mankind1 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? 0. 7. 8 How do we commonly judge of the degree of attention given to subject? What is it that induces us to bestow much time on any subject? 9. 90. On what does memory depend, and how is this shown? 0. 11. 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 13. 14. 15. 16. once. 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 î The cause of the difficulty? By what is intense attention always accompanied? What is the only thing that will confine the minds of men in scion tific pursuits? Why have they excited so much attention? 4. 94. The first thing that arrests our attention in dreams? Why did President Edwards think it needful to notice his dreams? 10, $5. What other circumstance affects our dreams? 11. 12, 13. 14. State the two facts related in evidence of this. What else has considerable influence in producing dreams, and 15. 95. The first cause of the incoherency of dreams? 16 What keeps the train of our thoughts coherent and uniform while w are awake? 17. 97 The second cause of the incoherency of dreams? Qu. 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 o 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. 39. 0. How is this estimate of time explained by some? The true explanation? 31. 32. Repeat the remarks of Stewart. PART II. CHAPTER I. 1. 102. In what way have we seen the mind connected with the material world? 2. 3. 4. Is all our knowledge derived from the senses? The natural progress of all true knowledge? Locke's doctrine? 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. 23 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? 26 27. How is it determined that these are of internal origin IL Sect CHAPTER II. 1. 108. How is the worl suggestion used? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 109. 7. 8. Who first proposed the use of this term? What are some of the ideas which Stewart attributes to it? What is said of the idea of existence? The origin of the notion of mind? The origin of personal identity? 9. 110. Why does the author decline to explain the nature of unity? How has it been defined? с 1. 12. How does the idea of it originate? What is the process by which we form numbers? 13. 111. The nature of succession? 14. 15. 16. What simple fact forms the occasion on which the idea of succes 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 and demerit? 39. 40. 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. Qa 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 us 6. 7. 8. in times past? Can we be conscious of material or immaterial objects which are Are we conscious of the existence of our own minds ? 9, 125. What is said of the belief attendant on the exercise of consciousness? 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 consciousness, few or many? 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18 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? 10. 11. 12. 13. 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 considered 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? 25. 26. 27. 28. Under what head, then, may all dates be classed? 29. 135. What is meant by relations of possession? 30. 31. 32 33. 34. 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. 35. 136. What does the notion of cause and effect, as it first exists in the 36 37. 38 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 effect 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? 5. 141. Do we know why it is that our thoughts and feelings succeed one another in a regular train? 6. 7. 8. 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? Is the association which is founded on resemblance limited to objects of sight? Repeat the poetry on this subject. 15. 143. Show in what way resemblance operates as an associating princi. 16. 17. 18. 19. 144. 20. 21. ple. Give several illustrations of this. Repeat the comparison of Akenside. Why do we often speak of nature as animated, etc.? Give the outlines of Count Lemaistre's story of the leper. 22. 145. The law of contiguity? and illustrate. 23, 24 25 26. 27. 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 What forms the basis of the calendar of the mass o men? 18 146. The law of cause and effect? |