See PHILLIPS' Geology. HUMBOLDT'S Cosmos. ANSTED'S Geology. G. F. RICHARDSON on Geology. ANSTED'S Ancient World. See also a series of Articles and Letters in the "Times" Newspaper, of September and October, 1845. 68. Did Circumstances justify the first French Revolution? See CARLYLE, and other authorities quoted at Question 62. PALEY on the Right of Rebellion. ALISON'S Europe. ARNOLD'S Modern History. TAYLOR'S Revolutions of Europe. LAMARTINE'S History of the Girondists. 69. Could not Arbitration be made a Substitute for War? See Peace Society's Tracts. Debates in the House of Commons, 1848-9. SIR J. MACKINTOSH's Works, vol. ii. pp. 320-327. 70. Are Annual, Triennial, or Septennial Parliaments most in harmony with the British Constitution and Character? See TOWNSEND's History of the House of Commons. Debates in Parliament on the subject. 71. Which Character is the more to be admired; that of Loyola or Luther? See MACAULAY's Works. Art. "Loyola." MONTGOMERY'S "Luther." BURNET'S History of the Reformation. The Jesuits as they were and are. ISAAC TAYLOR's Loyola and Jesuitism. SIR JAMES STEPHEN'S Essays on Ecclesiastical Biography. 72. Are there good Grounds for applying the Term "dark" to the Middle Ages? See HALLAM on the Middle Ages. WRIGHT'S Essays on the Middle Ages. MACCABE'S History of England before the Revolution. BERRINGTON'S Literary History of the Middle Ages. 74. Are Public or Private Schools to be preferred? See AMOS on Commercial Education. ARNOLD'S Miscellaneous Works. KAY on the Education of the English People. TREMENHEERE's Reports on Education. 75. Is the System of Education pursued at our Universities in accordance with the Requirements of the Age? See WHEWELL on University Education. HUBER'S English Universities. The Collegian's Guide. Debate on University Reform, House of Commons, 1850. Edinburgh Review, vol. lxxx. 76. Is the Decline of Slavery in Europe attributable to moral or to economical Influences? See JAMES'S History of Chivalry. HALLAM'S Middle Ages. MACAULAY'S History of England. “Introductory Chapter." Historical Pictures of the Middle Ages. GUIZOT on Civilisation. 77. Is Anger a Vice or a Virtue? See PALEY'S Moral Philosophy. ADAM SMITH'S Theory of Moral Sentiments. See ABERCROMBIE on the Moral Feelings. WHEWELL'S Elements of Morality. BROWN'S Ethics. Letters to my Unknown Friends. "Temper." 78. Which was the greatest Hero, Alexander, Cæsar, or Buonaparte? See PLUTARCH'S Lives. CARLYLE'S Hero-Worship. "The Hero as King." ARNOLD'S History of the Roman Commonwealth. 79. Which was the worse Monarch, Richard the Third or Charles the Second? See SHARON TURNER'S Richard the Third. MACAULAY'S History of England. SIDNEY'S Diary of the Times of Charles the Second. WALPOLE'S Historic Doubts. HALSTED'S Richard the Third. 80. Which was the greater Man, Franklin or Washington? See Life and Times of Washington. Family Library. Various Lives of Franklin. U 81. Is it probable that America will hereafter become the greatest of Nations? See PUTNAM's American Facts. BUCKINGHAM's America. LYELL'S America. MACGREGOR'S Progress of America COMBE'S Notes on America. HAMILTON'S Men and Manners in America. 82. Should not greater Freedom of Expression be encouraged in Debate? See BRANDE's Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art. Art. "Eloquence," and the authorities there quoted. CICERO. De Oratore. HUME'S Essay on Eloquence. 83. Which was the greater Poet, Chaucer or Spenser ? See HAZLITT's British Poets. COWDEN CLARKE'S Riches of Chaucer. MITFORD'S Edition of Spenser. TYRWHITT'S Edition of Chaucer. BELL'S English Poets. 84. Is the present a Poetical Age? See WARWICK's Poets' Pleasaunce. Introduction to LEIGH HUNT'S "Imagination and Fancy." FOSTER'S Handbook of Modern European Literature. MACAULAY'S Essays. LORD JEFFREY's Essays. |