33. Which is the greater Civiliser, the Statesman or the Poet?

See Debate No. I. p. 1.

CARLYLE'S Hero Worship. "The Hero as Poet."
GUICCIARDINI's Maxims; Martin's Translation.
See also the authorities quoted in Debate I.

34. Which is the greater Writer, Charles Dickens or Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton?

See The Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly, BLACKWOOD'S Magazine, HORNE's Spirit of the Age, FRASER'S Magazine: various articles on the subject during the last ten years.

35. Is the Principle of Utility a safe Moral Guide? See BENTHAM's Works; LORD JEFFREY'S Essays, vol. iii. pp. 303-310.

MADAME DE STAEL'S opinions thereon.

An able article on the subject in the New Monthly
Magazine for 1837.

ROBERT HALL on Expediency.

PALEY'S Moral Philosophy.

HUME's Essays. "Why Utility pleases."

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S Works, vol. i. pp. 15, 16. 193.

and 242.

DYMOND'S Essays, pp. 4. 28. 123.

36. Was the Deposition of Louis XVI. justifiable? See CARLYLE'S, THIERS', DE STAEL'S and MACFARLANE'S History of the French Revolution.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S Works, vol. iii. pp. 3-352.
LORD JEFFREY's Essays, vol. ii. pp. 40-45.

Historic Fancies. By the Hon. G. SMYTHE.

37. Is the Use of Oaths for Civil Purposes expedient?

See BENTHAM's Tract on the Needlessness of an Oath. HANSARD. "Debates in Parliament" on this subject. DYMOND'S Essays, pp. 58–67.

38. Is a Classical Education essential to an English Gentleman?

See MILTON on Education.

WHEWELL'S University Education.
LOCKE'S Thoughts on Education.

AMOS's Lectures on the Advantages of a Classical Edu-
cation.

ROBERT HALL on Classical Learning.

SYDNEY SMITH's Works, vol. i. pp. 183-199.

Edinburgh Review, vol. xv. pp. 41- 51.

39. Are Colonies advantageous to the Mother Country?

See M'CULLOCH's Edition of Smith's Wealth of Nations.
MERIVALE'S Lectures on Colonies.

TORRENS on Colonisation.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S Works, vol. iii. p. 325.
BRANDE'S Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art.
Art. "Colonies," and the works there quoted.

40. Which does the most to produce Crime,-Poverty, Wealth, or Ignorance?

See DUMAS's Celebrated Crimes.

BACON on the Uses of Knowledge.

See DR. HARRIS'S Mammon.

FOSTER'S Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance.
ROBERT HALL on the Hardships of Poverty.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S Works, vol. iii. pp. 371-376.
Edinburgh Review, vol. xlviii. pp. 176-181.

41. Is the Unanimity required from Juries conducive to the Attainment of the Ends of Justice?

See BLACKSTONE'S Commentaries on the Laws.
BENTHAM'S Judicial Establishment.

BENTHAM on Government and Special Juries.
STEPHENS' Commentaries on the Law.

SYDNEY TAYLOR's Works, pp. 392. 397. 413.

42. Is it not the Duty of a Government to establish a System of National Education?

See LOCKE's Thoughts on Education.

WYSE on Education.

CHANNING on Education.

JAMES'S Educational Institutions of Germany.

Fox's Lectures on Education.

SIMPSON'S Popular Education.

GODWIN'S Reflections on Education.

ROUSSEAU'S Emile.

MELVILL'S University Sermons.

ROBERT HALL on Knowledge.

Life of WILLIAM ALLEN, pp. 84-86.

43. Are the intellectual Faculties of the Dark Races of Mankind essentially inferior to those of the White?

See LAWRENCE's Natural History of Man.

PRICHARD'S Physical History of Mankind.

See BUFFON'S Physical History.

ELLIOTSON'S Physiology.

COMBE on the Constitution of Man.

See also BRANDE's Dictionary of Science, Literature, and
Art. Art. "Negroes ;" and the authorities there

cited.

44. Is Transportation a fit and effective Punishment? See CAPTAIN MACONOCHIE on Transportation,

GIBBON WAKEFIELD on Transportation.

SYDNEY SMITH's Works, vol. i. pp. 321-347.

45. Should not all Punishment be Reformatory? See BENTHAM on Punishment.

BECCARIA On Crimes and Punishments.

Report of the Prison Discipline Society.
HOWARD'S State of the Prisons.

ROMILLY'S Memoirs.

Edinburgh Review, vol. xxii. pp. 1-26.
ADSHEAD'S Prisons and Prisoners.

46. Is a Limited Monarchy, like that of England, the best Form of Government?

See DELOLME on the Constitution.

HALLAM'S Constitutional History.

DE TOCQUEVILLE's Democracy in America..
Edinburgh Review, vol. xx. pp. 275, 276.

HUME's Essays, vol. ii. p. 129-131.

LORD JEFFREY's Essays, vol. iv. pp. 4-18. 114, 115.

47. Is not Private Virtue essentially requisite to Greatness of Public Character?

See DYMOND'S Essays, pp. 70-79.

48. Is Eloquence a Gift of Nature, or may it be acquired?

See the works quoted in Debate X. p. 230.

49. Is Genius an innate Capacity?

See GRISENTHWAITE'S Essay on Genius.
AKENSIDE's Pleasures of Imagination.
MILL'S Analysis of the Human Mind.
DR. BROWN'S Philosophy of the Mind.
LOCKE on the Understanding.

DUGALD STEWART'S Elements of the Human Mind.
REID'S Inquiry into the Mind.

SIR W. TEMPLE'S Essay on Poetical Genius.
REV. ROBERT HALL on Poetic Genius.

Edinburgh Review, vol. xxxiv. pp. 82-88.

50. Is a rude or a refined Age the more favourable to the Production of Works of Imagination?

See SYDNEY TAYLOR's Works, p. 169.

SOUTHEY'S Progress of Society.

JEFFREY'S Essays.

CAMPBELL'S British Poets.

HAZLITT'S Criticism on British Poetry.

Edinburgh Review, vol. xxxvii. pp. 410-412.

vol. xlii. pp. 306, 307.

vol. xlviii.. pp. 50, 51.

vol. xxxiv. p. 449.

51. Is the Shaksperian the Augustan Age of English

Literature?

See LORD JEFFREY'S Essays, vol. i. pp. 81-161.; ii. pp. 315-342.; iii. p. 445.