QUESTIONS ΤΟ UPHAM'S ABRIDGMENT OF MENTAL PHILOSOPHY BY THE REV. L. L. SMITH. OF NORFOLK, VA igu. Bect CHAPTER 1. 1. Is the human mind a unit, or composed of many departments? How are the states of mind, the results of these leading depart 2. What is the intellect? In what two points of view may the intellectual part of man be considered Upon what does the existence of intellectual states of external ori. gin depend? How is this shown? What are intellectual states of internal origin? 9. 3. What kind of knowledge is first acquired? 12. 13. 14. Does the mind of the new-born infant possess any knowledge? How does it appear that there is a correspondence between the To what may the soul be compared ? Explain the points of resemblance. 15. 4. What two general principles are here laid down? The first proof of the truth of these principles? 17. 5. The second proof of it? 21. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 80. What are the first ideas of the human race? To what may the history and origin of all our notions be traced? When do we begin to compare, and reason, and seek for causes and effects? In what way is knowledge most easily imparted to children? 6. The third proof of the truth of these principles ? Why is the vocabulary of savage tribes so limited? What do we learn from the history of all languages? Illustrate the fact that the words of all languages, expressive of the mind, had an external origin. What conclusion may you derive from this fact? 7. The fourth proof of the truth of these principles ? What facts are stated of the deaf and dumb man of the city of Cher. What inference would you deduce from them? 2. Give an account of James Mitchell. CHAPTER II. Yu. Sect. 1. 9. Is sensation a simple or complex state of mind? 2. 3. 4. 5, 6. Why can it not be defined? Is its simplicity its only characteristic ? By what peculiarity is it distinguished? Why can we not speak of the sensations of joy and scrrow! 7. 10. Where has it, by some, been supposed that sensation is located? Where is it really located? 3. 9. How, then, should we regard the organs of sense? and illustrate 10. 11. Are our sensations copies, pictures, or images of outward objects! Do they possess any of the qualities of outward objects? 11. 12. What do you mean by this? 13. 12. Is the affection of the mind coetaneous with, or subsequent to, the operation of external bodies on the mind? 14. 15. 16. 17. The character and extent of this operation? What change takes place subsequently to the change in the orga of sense? What do we know of the connection between mind and matter? 18. 13. How does perception differ from sensation? 19. How is the term sometimes used? 21. 14. Is it a complex or a simple state of the mind? Distinguish between it and sensation. 22. 23. What would be the nature and extent of our knowledge, if we nat but sensation alone, without perception? 24. 15. What do we know of matter? 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Under what two heads have the qualities of material bodies beer How are the primary qualities known; and what are they? What do you mean by solidity? Show that water is solid in this sense. The Florentine experiment? and what did it prove? 31. 16. The secondary qualities of bodies, how divided? What are included under the first class? 32. 33. 34. What is meant when we say a body has sound, color, etc.? CHAPTER III. 1. 17. Is the possession of organs of sense essential to the possession that knowledge which we are accustomed to ascribe to them? How is this shown? 2. 3. How does it appear that they are essential to human knowledge' 4. 18. Can the senses be separated from the nervous system? 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Can they perform their duty if the brain be injured? Can they, if the nerves be tightly compressed? What may be inferred from these facts? What is the sensorial organ? What is essential to the sensations of hearing, seeing, etc.? 10. 19. How is the sensation of smell produced? 11. 20. What is the olfactory nerve? 12. 13. Is there any necessary connection between the smell and surround ing objects? How does it happen that we are rot merely sensible of the particu lar sensation, but refer it at once to the particular external object that produces it? Qu. Sect 14. 21. Show that this mental reference is made with great rapidity. Why is it so? 15. 16. 17. 22 18. 19. 20. What three things are involved in the process of perception? Is it confined to the tongue? Why do we speak of particular bodies as sweet, or sour, etc.? CHAPTER IV. 1. 23. How is sound produced? 2. 5. 6. What is the organ of hearing? Why are the ears placed in the side of the head? What is the tympanum of the ear? By what is the sound communicated to the mind? 7. 24. Are the sensations of sound more or less numerous than the words in the English language? 8 9. 10. How would you illustrate this fact? How many simple sounds are there, according to Dr. Reid? How are varieties and shades of difference of the same tone pro duced? and illustrate. 11.5 How do we know the place whence sounds originate? 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. What renders our ignorance of their place, previous to experience, less surprising? Illustrate this fact. How do we learn to distinguish the place of things? If a man, born deaf, were suddenly restored to his hearing, where What alone would teach him their true source? In what respect does the sense of touch differ from those of hearing, tasting, smelling? 4. 27. What knowledge would we derive from the sense of smelling alone? What additional ideas would we derive from these sensations? What feelings would these ideas excite in the mind? 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. If we had no other sense, how should we regard these feelings? What would be our condition without the senses of touch and sight 11. 28 How do we arrive at the idea of extension? 12. 13. 14. 15. Why can not the idea of extension be resolved into others? Dr. Brown's definition of form? Which is antecedent in the idea of nature, the idea of form or oi extension? 16. 29. The two significations of the words heat and cold? 7. 18. 19. What are the qualities in bodies which give us the sensation of heat and cold? Mention some of the various opinions respecting them. Do they resemble the sensations they occasion? 20. 30. When is a body called hard or soft? 21. 22. 23. How do we arrive at the sensation of hardness? Why is it difficult to make this sensation an object of reflection? |