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Its utility?

What is shame?

How characterized?

By what is it occasioned?

22. 300. The foundation of the respect we pay to the mass of mankind!

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What is reverence?

What is adoration?

Resepi ate the emotions that have been touched upon.

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PART I-CLASS II.

CHAPTER I.

Of what two kinds of sensibilities does the author treat?
How are the natural sensibilities divided?

What is said of desire?

What is essential to every appetite, propensity, and affection?
Why can we not define the desires?

How, then, do we obtain a knowledge of them?

Why is it important to obtain a definite idea of the place of de

sires?

Do desires follow intellections immediately or not?

How is this shown?

The proximate and causátive occasion of desires?

What fact is mentioned in illustration of what has been said?
What fixed law of the mind is stated?

13. 304. Which are the more permanent emotions or desires?

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To what are our emotions compared ?

What illustration is given of the strength and permanency of de sires

16. 305. What additional characteristic of desires is mentioned? From what do they differ in this respect?

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Give a reason for their fixedness, and illustrate.

21. 306. Are our desires pleasant or painful?

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What other characteristic circumstance distinguishes them from other mental states?

With what does the enjoyment vary?

24. 307. Are all our desires equally strong?

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On what does their strength depend?

On what does the strength of our emotions depend?

27. 308. What other characteristic attribute of our desirer is mentiona!! What does Hobbes term desire?

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Does it always terminate in action?

What is necessary to this?

Does the tendency exist if action does not follow dri

Does this tendency exist in other departments of the min
What would man be with intellect alone?

What with emotive sensibilities alone?

How illustrated?

In what exists the tendency to excite movement?

The office of the will?

38. 309. How are the desires modified?

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40. 310. What two-fold action have all these principles. instincts excepted? Why are instincts excepted?

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Why is it important to notice this two-fold action?

CHAPTER II.

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What are instincts?

What is implied in the term instinctive?

Are the instinctive tendencies of men or of brutes the most frequens and effective?

Why should they be?

The proof that the instinct of the lower animals is strikingly adapt ed to the exigences of their situation?

312. Mention a striking fact illustrative of the nature of the instinctive principle.

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Mention a remarkable fact in relation to becs.

Can you prove that this is instinct?

The first instance of instinct in man?

The second?

The third? and illustrate.

2. 314. The fourth? and illustrate.

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The fifth? and illustrate.

14. 315. The design of our instincts?

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What power predominates in man, and what in brutes?

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What is said of the lower animals in this respect?

Why can not our appetites be called selfish?

Are they ever strong enough to enslave us?

What is remarked of one so enslaved?

Give an instance of an acquired appetite.
Explain the origin of such appetites.

The only way to avoid the forming of such habits?

13. 319. Explain the instinctive and the voluntary operation of the appetites The basis of the morality of the appetites?

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In what do virtue and vice consist, considered in relation to the ap petites?

CHAPTER IV.

1. 320. In what respect do the propensities differ from the instincts? And from the appetites?

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What is sometimes stronger than this?

Can it ever be extinguished?

8. 322. Its two-fold operation? and illustrate.

9. 323 Show that curiosity is one of our propensities.

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What class of works depends almost wholly on curiosity for read ers?

11. 324 What is said of the deaf and dumb with reference to this propens

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How was this shown in James Mitcher
Repeat the poetry on this subject.
Illustrate its two-fold operation.

How may it be stimulated or restrained?
When is it virtuous, and when vicious?

Illustrate with reference to the astronomer.
18. 326. Show that the propensity to imitation is natura..
How do children acquire the use of oral language?
In what various ways do they manifest this propensity
21. 327. Is this principle one of utility?

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Show how.

What practical inference may we deduce from this?

24. 328. Show that the desire of esteem is natural to man.
Show that it is not confined to children.

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Show that it is not founded on personal and interested considua
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Show that it operates strongly with reference to the future.

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31. 330. Show that children very early form a notion of the relation of co
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32. 331. On what does the morality of this desire depend?

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When is it morally right, and when wrong" ?

What is remarked on the duty of this desire?
By what Scripture is it enforced?

36. 232. What is said of its ordinary action?
Why is it usually inordinately strong?
What is covetousness?

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How is it shown that the desire of power is natural to the mind!
and illustrate.

43. 334. In what cases is its exercise virtuous, and in what vicions:
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What is ambition?

45. 335. To what actions does the desire of happiness lead us?

46. 336. What is this desire called?

47. How is it distinguished from selfishness?

48. 337. Repeat Wardlaw's remark on self-love.

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How do the Scriptures appeal to self-love?

Of what propensity has our desire for society been scmetimes ra
garded as a modification?

Show that it is not so.

How may this principle be perverted?

53. 339. The first evidence of the existence of this principle?

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57. 341. What strange notion of Hobbes is noticed?

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propensive nature?

The relative ranks of our sensibilities?

3. 343. How do the affections differ from the appetites and propensities!

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