QUESTIONS TO UPHAM'S ABRIDGMENT OF MENTAL PHILOSOPH BY THE REV. L. L. SMITH, OF NORFOLK, VA Qu. Sect. CHAPTER I. 1. 1. Is the human mind a unit, or composed of many departments? Its three leading divisions? 2. 8. How are the states of mind, the results of these leading depart ments, expressed? 2. What is the intellect? In what two points of view may the intellectual part of man be considered? Upon what does the existence of intellectual states of external origin depend? How is this shown? What are intellectual states of internal origin? 9. 3. What kind of knowledge is first acquired? 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 4. 16. Does the mind of the new-born infant possess any knowledge? How does it appear that there is a correspondence between the To what may the soul be compared ? Explain the points of resemblance. What two general principles are here laid down? 17. 5. The second proof of it? 18. What are the first ideas of the human race? To what may the history and origin of all our notions be traced? When do we begin to compare, and reason, and seek for causes and effects? In what way is knowledge most easily imparted to children? Why is the vocabulary of savage tribes so limited? Illustrate the fact that the words of all languages, expressive of the What conclusion may you derive from this fact? 28. 7. The fourth proof of the truth of these principles? What facts are stated of the deaf and dumb man of the city of Char. tres ? What inference would you deduce from them? Give an account of James Mitchell. CHAPTER II. Qu. Sect. 1. 9. Is sensation a simple or complex state of mind? 2. 3, 4. 5. 6. Why can it not be defined? Is its simplicity its only characteristic? By what peculiarity is it distinguished? Why can we not speak of the sensations of joy and scrrow! 7. 10. Where has it, by some, been supposed that sensation is located? 8. 9. How, then, should we regard the organs of sense? and illustrate 11. 12. 13. 12. Is the affection of the mind coetaneous with, or subsequent to, the operation of external bodies on the mind? 14. 15. 16. 17. The character and extent of this operation? What change takes place subsequently to the change in the organ What do we know of the connection between mind and matter? 18. 13. How does perception differ from sensation? 21. 14. Is it a complex or a simple state of the mind? 22. 23. Distinguish between it and sensation. What would be the nature and extent of our knowledge, if we ha but sensation alone, without perception? 24. 15. What do we know of matter? 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Under what two heads have the qualities of material bodies bee How are the primary qualities known; and what are they? What do you mean by solidity? Show that water is solid in this sense. The Florentine experiment? and what did it prove? 31. 16. The secondary qualities of bodies, how divided? What are included under the first class? 32. 33. 34. What is meant when we say a body has sound, color, etc.? CHAPTER III. 1. 17. Is the possession of organs of sense essential to the possession that knowledge which we are accustomed to ascribe to them? How is this shown? 2. 3. How does it appear that they are essential to human knowledge? 4. 18. Can the senses be separated from the nervous system? 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Can they perform their duty if the brain be injured? Can they, if the nerves be tightly compressed? What may be inferred from these facts? What is the sensorial organ? What is essential to the sensations of hearing, seeing, etc.? 10. 19. How is the sensation of smell produced? 11. 20. What is the olfactory nerve? 12. 13. Is there any necessary connection between the smell and surround ing objects? How does it happen that we are not merely sensible of the particu lar sensation, but refer it at once to the particular external object that produces it? |