Qu. 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. 9. 125. 10. 11. in times past? Can we be conscious of material or immaterial objects which are Are we conscious of the existence of our own minds? Of what, then, are we conscious? What is said of the belief attendant on the exercise of consciousness? The reason of such belief? 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? 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 carried to a much greater extent? CHAPTER IV. 1. 127. What is remarked of the expression, "The mind brings its thoughts together," etc? What is the meaning of it? What is relative suggestion? 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 trate. Mention several terms that express the ideas of relatio. 7. 129. What are correlative terms? The advantage derived from their use? 9. 130. Why is it difficult to classify our relations? 12. 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. By what terms are such relations expressed? 15. 16. 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? In what are they particularly discoverable? 19. 133. Under what circumstances do we form the idea of the relations of 23. 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? Qu. Sect. 24. 134. How do time and place resemble each other? Are our notions of time relative or absolute ? Under what aspect is all time contemplated? 25. 26. 27. 28. What do we mean when we say of any event, it happer ed on such a day, say July 4th, 1776? and illustrate. 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 mind, include ? 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. 1. 139. Why do we take up the subject of association and memory before that of the reasoning powers? 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 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. ple. Give several illustrations of this. Repeat the comparison of Akenside. Why do we often speak of nature as animated, etc.? 19. 144. What is the law of contrast? 20. 21. 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 its influence? What forms the basis of the calendar of the mass o men? Illustrate. 8 146. The law of cause and effect? Q Sect 29. 30. 31. 32. Show that this is one of the primary principles of our mental asso ciations. Illustrate the law. Mention the incident related by Locke. CHAPTER VI. 1. 147 Repeat the four secondary laws of mental association. Show that they are not of minor importance. 2. 3. To what are the primary and secondary laws compared? 4. 148. Repeat the first law of lapse of time. 5, 6. 7. Illustrate this law. What apparent exception to this law is mentioned? 8. 149. Repeat the law of repetition, and illustrate. 9. What is said of the operation of this law in particular arts and professions? 10. 150. Repeat the law of coexistent emotion. 11. 12. Why are bright objects more readily recalled than faint ones? Why are those events in our history that were attended with great joy or sorrow longest remembered? 13. 151. In what respect are there original differences in the mental consti. tution of men? 14. 15. 16. In what channel do the associations of the great mass of mankind What original differences are often seen in men? Illustrate. 17. 152. What two classes of persons are spoken of here as originally dif 18. 19. 20. ferent? How does Milton illustrate the difference? What other thing is mentioned as modifying our trains of thought? CHAPTER VII. 1. 153. Why is the subject of memory taken up after that of association? Is it a simple or complex action of the intellectual principle? What is meant by this? Illustrate the distinction between our conceptions and memory. 8. 154. In what cases is our belief controlled by our remembrances? How do we know when to rely on our memory? 9. 10. What would be our condition without such a reliance? 11. 155. What is remarked of the ability to remember? 12. Relate several instances of great memory. 13. 156. What is circumstantial memory? 15. What kind of memory prevails among uneducated people? 16. 157. How is this illustrated by Shakspeare? 17. 158. What is philosophic memory? 18. By what is it sustained? 20. 159. Under what two forms does every department of science present 21. 22 itself to our notice? Which form does the circumstantial memory rapidly embrace? Quote Mr. Stewart's remarks on this topic. 23. 160. What is intentional recollection? Qu. Sect. 24. 25. 26. Are our trains of associated thought voluntary? Can we will to remember any particular event? In what does our chief power in quickening and strengthening the memory consist? 27. 161. How do we set about to recall any circumstances which we wish to remember? Two ways. 28. 162. Give the illustration furnished by Dr. Beattie. 29. How else are these views illustrated? 30. 163. What are the two prominent marks of a good memory? 31. 32. To what is tenacity of memory compared? 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. 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. 42. 165. The fourth direction? 43. 44. Mention an instance of the utter violation of this rule. 45. 166. What other help to memory is here noticed? 46. 47. 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. 168. On what does the ability of the mind to restore its past experiences depend? 8. 9. 10. What admitted facts render this probable? What important views do these facts confirm ? 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? 20. What objection has been raised to the Scriptural doctrine of a final judgment? 21. 22. 23. 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 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. faculty of reasoning? Is reasoning identical with, or involved in, consciousness? 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? 8. 175. How is reasoning defined? 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 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? 16. 176. How many propositions are essential to every process of reasoning? Is the arrangement of propositions arbitrary? 17. 18. 19. Are they brought into existence by an act of volition? By what are they suggested? 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. 36. 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 41. 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? |