XXX. WOULD THE UNIVERSAL PREVALENCE OF SOCIALISM ADVANCE THE INTERESTS OF HUMANITY? ROUSSEAU'S Inquiry into the Social Contract. FISHER'S Examination of Owen's New System of Society. CONSIDERATIONS of some Recent Social Theories (Boston, 1853). LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, NO. CXXX,—Article VI. (ON SOCIALISM). BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, No. CCCXLIX., for November, 1844,Article, "FRENCH SOCIALISTS." XXXI. ARE THE MODERNS SUPERIOR TO THE ANCIENTS IN RHETORICAL SCIENCE? ARISTOTLE'S Rhetoric, translated by GILLIES. CICERO De Oratore, translated by GUTHRIE. QUINCTILIAN'S Institutes of Eloquence, translated by GUTHRIE. LONGINUS on the Sublime, translated by W. SMITH. DIALOGUE on Eloquence, attributed to TACITUS, translated by MURPHY HORACE De Arte Poetica, translated by P. FRANCIS. CAMPBELL'S Philosophy of Rhetoric. KAMES' Elements of Criticism. WHATELY'S Rhetoric. XXXII. IS GENIUS INNATE? BROWN'S Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind. REID'S Inquiry into the Human Mind. LOCKE on the Human Understanding. WHIPPLE'S Lecture on Genius. BLAIR'S Lectures on Rhetoric. XXXIII. IS THE STORY OF THE TROJAN WAR CREDIBLE? THIRWALL'S History of Greece. LE CHEVALIER'S Description of the Plain of Troy. GELL'S Topography of Troy. WOOD'S Essay on the Genius and Writings of Homer. XXXIV. ARE NEGROES INFERIOR TO WHITE PEOPLE IN MENTAL CAPACITY? PENNY CYCLOPÆDIA,-Article, "MAN." GREGOIRE'S Inquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties of Negroes. BRANDE'S Dictionary of Science, Literature, and A-Article, "NEGROES." PRICHARD'S Researches into the Physical History of Mankited. LAWRENCE'S Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy, "wlogy, and the Natural History of Man. COMBE'S Constitution of Man Considered. ENCYCLOPÆDIA AMERICANA,-Article, "AFRIC XXXV. IS THE CHARACTER OF QUEEN ELIZAPTH WORTHY TO BE HUME'S History of England ADMIRED? AGNES STRICKLAND'S Queens of England. SHARON TURNER's History of Englan uring the Reign of Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth. LUCY AIKIN'S Memoirs of the Court Queen Elizabeth. ABBOTT'S Life of Elizabeth. XX' I. IS THE STATEMENT,- แ EVERY V N IS THE ARCHITECT OF HIS OWN FORTUE," TRUE? DAVENPORT's Lives of Individuals who have raised themselves from Poverty to Eminence and Fortune. EDWARDS' Biography of Self-Taught Men. MIDDLETON'S Life of Cicero. HUGH MILLER'S My Schools and Schoolmasters. PURSUIT of Knowledge under Difficulties, (published by the Harpers.) BOYHOOD of Great Men; also, Footprints of Famous Men, (published by the Harpers.) PARTON'S Life of Horace Greeley. CARLYLE'S Review of Heeren's Life of Heyne,-Foreign Review, No. IV., 1828. XXXVII. WAS THE HARTFORD CONVENTION JUSTIFIABLE? DWIGHT'S History of the Hartford Convention. OTIS' Letters in Defense of the Hartford Convention. XXXVIII. ARE NOT THE VIRTUES OF THE PURITANS GENERALLY OVER-ESTIMATED? NEAL'S History of the Puritans. GREY'S Examination of Neal on the Puritans. MADOX'S Vindication of the Church of England against Neal's History of the Puritans. STOUGHTON'S Heroes of Puritan Times, with an Introductory Letter by JOEL HAWES, D.D. YOUNG'S Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers. XXXIX. WAS THE EXECUTION OF CHARLES THE FIRST JUSTIFIABLE? HUME'S History of England. CLARENDON'S History of the Rebellion. GUIZOT's History of the English Revolution in 1640, from the Accession of Charles I. to his Death; translated by W. HAZLITT. HALLAM'S Constitutional History of England; also, MACAULAY'S Review of the same (in Modern British Essayists, Vol. I.) ABBOTT'S History of Charles I. LUCY AIKIN'S Memoirs of the Court of King Charles I. COURT and Times of Charles I. (London, 1848). WESTMINSTER REVIEW, NO XLIII,—Article II. XL. IS THE EARLY LEGEND OF ROMULUS AND THE FOUNDATION OF ROME ENTITLED TO CREDENCE? PLUTARCH'S Life of Romulus. PENNY CYCLOPÆDIA,-Article, "ROMULUS." ANTHON'S CLASSICAL DICTIONARY,-Articles, ULUS." ABBOTT'S Life of Romulus. NIEBUHR'S History of Rome. ARNOLD'S History of Rome. "ROMA" and 'ROM SECTION XIII. IN MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION. order to supply, in some degree, the demand for variety in the questions proper for discussion in Debating Societies, we append the following list, which contains, among many others, those, also, that have been used in the three sections preceding. 1. Ought the State to provide for the free education of all children within its borders? 2. Is a life of celibacy preferable to that of the married state? 3. Ought old Bachelors to be subjected to civil disabilities? 4. Should monopolies in trade ever be allowed? 5. Which yields the greater pleasure, anticipation or possession? 6. Is the maxim, "A poet is born such, not made," strictly true? 7. Ought ministers of the gospel to engage in party politics? 8. Which life is subjected to the greater hardship, the soldier's o that of the sailor? 9. Are the ancient Seres identical with the modern Chinese? 10. Ought there to be a law of international copyright ? 11. Which contributes the more to eloquence, art or nature? 12. Ought the Protective Policy or Free-Trade Principles to prevail ? 13. Which yields the higher entertainment, poetry or history? 14. Is it expedient to form colonies of convicts? 15. Is universal suffrage expedient? 16. Is the doctrine of human perfectibility true? 17. Can the immortality of the soul be proved from the light of ature alone? 18. Can a man who has been unjustly condemned to death, inJocently withdraw himself from the hands of the law? 19. Ought gambling to be suppressed by law? 20. Do men suffer more, in this life, from real than from imaginary vils? 21. Ought a breach of promise of marriage to be punished merely by recuniary fines? 22. Which abounds the more in sublimity, ancient or modern poetry? 23. Which exercises the greater influence upon mankind, hope or fear? 24. Which is the more serviceable to mankind, gold or iron? +25. Which is better for the development of character, poverty or riches? 26. Which is the better source of knowledge, reading or observation? 27. Ought the blacks of the free States to have the privilege of voting? 28. Is Roman Catholicism compatible with free institutions? 29. Would a repeal of the union between Ireland and England be beneficial to the former? 30. Would a large standing army be conducive to our country's prosperity? 31. Would a Congress of nations be practical or beneficial? + 32. Were the Puritans justified in their treatment of the North American Indians? 33. Ought the liberty of the press to be restricted? 34. Was the Mexican war justifiable? 35. Has the Negro more ground for complaint than the Indian ? 36. Was the banishment of Roger Williams justifiable? 37. Was Governor Dorr's imprisonment justifiable? 38. Was the war between England and China justifiable on the part of England? 39. Is England likely ever to become a republic? 40. Is the Wilmot proviso constitutional? 41. Ought our government to favor the building of a Pacific railroad? 42. Was the intervention of the French at Rome just and expedient? |