more imaginative, sublime, and spiritual: the decision must depend upon which are the nobler qualities.

12. Is Military Renown a fit Object of Ambition?

See CHANNING's Essay on War.

CHANNING on Napoleon Bonaparte.
Childe Harold, Canto I. War.

ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S Picture of War.
ROBERT HALL on the Miseries of War.

13. Is Ambition a Vice or a Virtue?

See HUGHES'S Essay on Ambition in the "Guardian."
LORD BACON'S Essay on Ambition.

WOLSEY'S Advice to Cromwell. Play of Henry VIIL
Paradise Lost. Satan's Address to the Sun.
ADAM SMITH on Misdirected Ambition.

BISHOP WATSON's Sermons to Young Persons.
M'CULLOCH'S Political Economy, pp. 527-530.

14. Has Novel-reading a Moral Tendency?

See SIR W. SCOTT's Criticism on Novels and Romances.
SCOTT's Treatise on Romance.

The Edinburgh Review, vol. xxiv. pp. 320, &c.
AKENSIDE'S Pleasures of Imagination.

LORD JEFFREY's Essays, vol. iii. p. 440.

vol. iv. p. 517.

GOLDSMITH'S Citizen of the World, Letter LIII.

NOTE.

It may seem that this question barely admits of discussion, for moral novels must, of course, have a moral tendency

but at least the debate may serve to lead the debaters to a proper selection of novels.

15. Is the Character of Queen Elizabeth deserving of our Admiration?

See HUME'S History of England.

LUCY AIKIN'S Memoirs of Elizabeth.

SIR W. SCOTT's Kenilworth-for a faithful Portraiture

of Elizabeth.

MISS STRICKLAND'S Queens of England.

SHARON TURNER'S History of Elizabeth's Reign.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S Works, vol. iii. pp. 282-284.
MACAULAY'S Critical Essays, vol. ii. pp. 1-34.

16. Is England rising or falling as a Nation?
See BACON's Essay on States: and his Essay on the Great-
ness of Kingdoms.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S Works, vol. iii. pp. 500, 501.
Edinburgh Review, vol. xxi. pp. 22. et seq.

M'CULLOCH'S Statistics of the British Empire.

Compare the Elements of Modern with the Elements of Ancient Prosperity.

17. Has Nature or Education the greater Influence in the Formation of Character?

See LOCKE's Thoughts on Education.

COMBE'S Constitution of Man.

GODWIN on Education.

EDGEWORTH on Education.

WATTS on the Mind.

AIMÉ MARTIN on Education.

LORD JEFFREY's Essays, vol. i. p. 138.

18. Which is the more valuable Metal, Gold or Iron?

See URE's Dictionary of Arts, &c. Art. "Iron."
LEYDEN'S Ode to an Indian Gold Coin.

JACOB'S Enquiry into the Precious Metals.

HOLLAND'S Metal Manufactures, "Lardner's Cabinet
Cyclopædia."

A Paper on the Uses of Gold, "Maunder's Universal
Class Book:" also one on Iron.

NOTE.

This is a question between Show and Value-be

tween ornament and utility.

19. Is War in any case justifiable?

See SYDNEY SMITH'S Sermons "on Invasion."
The Tracts of the Peace Society.

CHALMERS on the Hatefulness of War.

CHANNING on War.

DR. JOHNSON'S Thoughts on the Falkland Islands.
ROBERT HALL on War.

BURKE on the Impeachment of Hastings.

Edinburgh Review, vol. xxxix. pp. 6—18.

vol. xxxv. p. 409.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S Works, vol. ii. pp. 320-327.; iii. 200. 252.

20. Has the Discovery of America been beneficial to the World?

See LORD JEFFREY's Essays, vol. ii. pp. 188-209. Article "Columbus."

SYDNEY SMITH's Works, vol. i. pp. 280. 362,

ROBERTSON'S History of America.

WASHINGTON IRVING'S Life of Columbus.

MARTIN'S British Colonies. "North America."

21. Can any Circumstances justify a Departure from

Truth?

See PALEY'S Moral and Political Philosophy.

BEATTIE'S Essay on Truth.

BENTHAM'S Principles of Morals.

BACON on Truth.

COMBE'S Moral Philosophy.

ROBERT HALL on Expediency.

LORD JEFFREY's Essays, vol. iii. pp. 303–310.

22. Is Sporting justifiable?

See SYDNEY SMITH's Works, vol. i. "Game Laws.”
STRUTT on the Sports and Pastimes of England.
WALKER'S Manly Exercises.

WALTON on Angling.

CHRISTOPHER NORTH'S Recreations.

NIMROD on "The Chase, the Turf, and the Road."

SCROPE'S Deer Stalking.

Pamphlets by the HON. G. BERKELEY.

23 Does not Virtue necessarily produce Happiness, and does not Vice necessarily produce Misery in this Life?

See BENTHAM's Rationale of Reward.

LOGAN'S Sermon "There is no peace, saith my God, to

the wicked."

MELVILL'S Sermon on the same Text.

POPE on Virtue.

MACBETH'S Soliloquy.

JAMES HARRIS on Virtue Man's Interest.

24. From which does the Mind gain the more Knowledge, Reading or Observation?

See GIBBON's Abstract of his Readings.

LORD BACON on Study.

MASON on Self-Culture.

TODD's Student's Manual.

CARLYLE on Books.

"Hero-Worship."

CHANNING on Self-Culture.

ROBERT HALL on the Advantages of Knowledge.
Edinburgh Review, vol. xxxiv. p. 384.

25. Have the Gold Mines of Spain, or the Coal Mines of England, been more beneficial to the World?

See Hood's Poem-"Miss Kilmansegg," for a vivid description of the baneful influence of Gold.

A Paper on the Uses of Gold, in "Maunder's Universal
Class Book."

M'CULLOCH'S Commercial Dictionary, Art. "Coal."
Geographical Dictionary, Art. 'British

Empire."

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26. Which was the greater General, Hannibal or

Alexander?

See PLUTARCH'S Life of Alexander.

History of Rome.

THIRLWALL'S History of Greece.

27. Which was the greater Poet, Dryden or Pope?

See LORD JEFFREY'S Essays, vol. i. pp. 163–166.

SIR W. SCOTT's Life of Dryden.

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