62. On the influence of peace upon the condition of the agriculturist, the manufacturer, the merchant, and the professional man.

63. On the views of life taken by Democritus, Heraclitus, Diogenes, and Zeno.

64. On the tendency of poetry, history, and ethical science, to promote improvement in virtue.

65. On the influence on personal happiness, of natural temper, cultivated taste, external condition, and social intercourse.

66. On novelty, sublimity, beauty, and harmony, as sources of gratification. 67. Ancient ethics, considered as pictures of manners, as proofs of genius, or as sources of entertainment.

68. The union which a harmony of motive produces between men of different pursuits, and that which results merely from a similarity of action.

69. The respective claims of poetry, painting, architecture, and sculpture, as means of refinement of taste.

70. Personal memoirs and formal histories, as illustrations of national pro

gress.

71. An old and a new country, as fields for enterprise. 72. The superiority of conscience to human laws.

73. Ancient and modern notions of liberty.

74. The scientific traveller and the missionary.

75. A profound philosophy and a wide observation of men, as elements of

a statesman.

76. The pastoral and the hunter's life.

77. The war spirit in republics and in monarchies.

78. Modern explorations in Africa and America.

79. The influence of devotion to the person of the Sovereign in monarchies, and to that of a popular favorite in republics.

80. Explorations by sea and by land.

81. The study of grammer, logic, and the mathamatics, as contributing to the development of the intellectual powers.

82. Personal beauty, elevation of rank, and the possession of riches, as passports in society.

83. The animal, the mineral, and the vegetable kingdoms, as fields of scientific discovery.

84. The pulpit, the press, and the school-room, as efficient agents on the morals of a people.

85. The horse, the cow, and the sheep, as contributing to the comfort and convenience of mankind.

86. The expectation of reward and the fear of punishment, as affecting a moral agent.

87. The pursuits of agriculture, the profession of arms, the business of trade, and the labors of the mechanic, as affecting the taste and morals of a people.

88. Color, form, and size, as elements of physical beauty

89. Quickness of perception, retentiveness of memory, and plodding perseverance, as contributing to mental advancement.

90. The six follies of science.

The quadrature of the circle; the multiplication of the cube; perpetual motion; the philosopher's stone; magic; and judicial astrology.

91. Skepticism and credulity compared as obstacles to intellectual im

provement.

92. Poetry and history considered as sources of amusement.

SUBJECTS FOR COLLOQUYS, OR COLLOQUIAL DISCUSSIONS.

1. Attachment to party as a ground of action, for an upright politician. 2. On the defects and advantages of history, as affording a knowledge of the motives and actions of individuals, and of the character of human nature.

3. Dn the good and bad effects of emulation.

4. On the moral influence of the Christian Sabbath.

5. On the influence of fashion on the judgment of right and wrong.

6. On the influence of the multiplicity of books, on the interests of literature and science.

7. Deference to great names in philosophy, and to high rank in the social

state.

S. The enthusiast and the matter of fact man.

9. On the advantages and disadvantages resulting to a scholar, from frequent intercourse with mixed society.

10. On the effects of literary reviews, as at present conducted.

11. On the comparative prevalence and strength of the principles of loyalty and independence in man.

12. On the character of ancient and modern patriotism.

13. Of establishing a University in the country or in a city.

14. Foreign travellers in the United States.

15. On the different views, which literary men take of the world at their first entrance upon it.

16. The difference of manners in Rome and in modern civilized states. 17. On active profession, as injuring or assisting the efforts of a literary

man.

18. The comparative influence of governments and of individuals, in effecting great public improvements.

19. The literary influence of a reading public.

20. The views taken of a nation, by itself and others.

21. The moral effects of public, and of domestic amusements.

22. The effects of controversy on partisans, and on the public.

23. The influence of the Roman Gladiatorial shows, and of the Greek games, on the character of the people.

24. The comparative effects of literature and of science, on the progress of civilization.

25. The effect which acquaintance with foreign languages has upon the originality of a nation's literature.

26. The comparative influence of individuals and learned societies in forming the literary character of a nation.

27. The influence of the multiplication of books upon literature.

28. The study of nature, and of man, as affording a proper field for the poet.

29. The standard of taste.

30. The novels of Fielding, Richardson, and the author of Waverley.

31. The comparative importance of the expeditions to ascertain the North West passage, and the source of the Niger.

32. Intellectual, moral, and physical education.

33. The prospects of Christianity in India.

34. The satires of Horace and Juvenal.

35. How far the right should be controlled by the expedient.

36. On the comparative value of contemporaneous and posthumous fame.

37. On the evils of anarchy, and of an arbitrary government.

38. Diligent observation of facts and philosophical use of them.

39. On superstition and skepticism.

40. The self-devotion of the Christian martyr and the Roman patriot. 41. Poets and novelists of the poor.

42. Strafford and Sir Henry Vane the Younger.

43. The idea of the beautiful, as developed in Grecian literature and art. 44. The influence of the association of ideas on our practical operations. 45. The moral and intellectual influence of the principle of emulation, on systems of education.

46. Entertaining mysteries, novels of real life, and romantic or supernatu ral fictions, as affording similar species of delight.

47. The Sacred and Profane poets.

48. Milton and Isaiah.

49. Johnson and St. Paul.

50. Moore and David.

51. Addison and St. John. 52. Byron and Ezekiel.

53. Hume and Moses.

SUBJECTS FOR FORENSIC DISPUTATIONS.

1. Whether the increased facilities of intercourse between Europe and the United States be favorable to this country.

2. Whether more evil or good is to be expected from the disposition manifested, at the present day, to try existing institutions by first principles.

3. Whether voting by ballot should be introduced into all elective and legislative proceedings.

4. Whether forms of government exert any important influence on the growth and character of national literature.

5. Whether any attempt should be made to preserve severity of manners in a modern republic.

6. Ought Congress to pass an international copy-right law.

7. Is there reason to think that the public mind will ever be more settled than at present, about the character of Mary, Queen of Scots.

8. Whether more good than evil has resulted to the world, from the life and religion of Mahomet.

9. Whether popular superstitions, or enlightened opinions, be most favorable to the growth of poetical literature.

10. Whether the literature of America be injured by that of modern foreign

countries.

11. Whether a want of reverence be justly chargeable on our age and country.

12. Whether the diversities of individual character be owing more to physical, than to moral causes.

13. Whether the advancement of civil liberty be more indebted to intellectual culture, than to physical suffering.

14. Whether the fine or the useful arts afford the better field for the display of originality.

15. Whether prosperity and increase of wealth have a favorable influence upon the manners and morals of a people.

16. Whether modern facilities of testing literary efforts by popular opinion, be unfavorable to the production of great works.

17. Whether the choice of a representative should be restricted to the inhabitants af the town or district represented.

18. Whether the sum of human happiness on earth be greater, by a succession of generations, than it would have been by one continued race; the number of inhabitants being the same.

19. Whether, in a public seminary, the course of study established by rule should be the same for all.

20. Do savage nations possess a full right to the soil.

21. Whether a State have a right to recede from the Union. 22. Whether, in times of political discussion, it is the duty of every citizen to declare his opinion, and attach himself to some party.

23. Whether there were greater facilities, in ancient times, for an individual acquiring influence, than there are now.

24. Whether the inequalities of our social condition be favorable to the progress of knowledge.

25. Is it expedient to make colonies of convicts.

26. Is the cause of despotism strengthened by the extermination of the Poles.

27. Whether the inequalities of genius in different countries be owing to moral causes.

28. Whether inflicting capital punishments publicly has any tendency to diminish crime.

29. Whether the personal dependence, incident to a minute division of labor in the arts and sciences, be dangerous to our free institutions. 30. Whether the influences which tend to perpetuate, be stronger than those which tend to dissolve, the union of the United States.

31. Whether we should abstain from publishing the truth, from a fear lest the world be not prepared to receive it.

32. Whether the popularity of a literary work is to be received as an evidence of its real merits.

33. Is there any objection to a man's proposing himself for public office, and using means to obtain it.

34. Does proselytism favor the cause of truth.

35. Whether privateering be incident to the right of war.

36. Whether a written constitution be efficacious in securing civil liberty. 37. Whether the progress of knowledge lessen the estimation of the fine

arts.

38. Whether the exclusion of foreign articles, to encourage domestic manufactures, be conducive to public wealth.

39. Whether the world be advancing in moral improvement.

40. Whether the progress of civilization diminish the love of martial glory. 41. Whether personal interest in a subject of investigation be favorable to the discovery of truth.

42. Whether the power of eloquence be diminished by the progress of literature and science.

43. Whether the prevalence of despotism in Asia be occasioned principally by physical causes.

44. Whether the present circumstances of Europe furnish reason to expect an essential amelioration of human affairs.

45. Do facts, or fiction, contribute most to mental enjoyment.

46. Whether writers of fiction be morally responsible for unchaste and profane language in their productions.

47. The policy of requiring property qualifications for office.

48. Ought capital punishments to be inflicted in time of peace.

49. Does the system of modern warfare indicate any advancement in civilization.

50. Is the existence of two great political parties in our country desirable. 51. Has her union with England been detrimental to Ireland.

SUBJECTS FOR DELIBERATIVE, POLITICAL, CRITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND LITERARY DISCUSSIONS, DISQUISITIONS, INQUIRIES, &c.

1. On the right of legislative bodies to provide by law for the support of religion. (Deliberative Discussion.)

2. The character of a philosophical historian. (Philosophical Disquisition.)

3. The effect of prevailing philosophical views on the style of elegant literature. (Disquisition.)

4. On the alleged degeneracy of animals and vegetables in America. (Philosophical Discussion.)

5. Whether works of imagination should be designed to produce a specific moral effect. (Literary Discussion.)

6. The English styles that have attracted the most imitators. (Literary Disquisition.)

7. "Mahomet Ali." (Political Disquisition.)

8. Whether national literature is to be regarded more as a cause or a consequence of national refinement. (Deliberative Discussion.)

9. Originality in literature, as affected by sound criticism. (Literary Dis

quisition,

10. The influence of superstition on science and literature. (Philosophical Disquisition.)

11. On the materiality of light. (Philosophical Disputation.)

12. Is the preservation of the balance of power a justifiable cause of war. (Deliberative Discussion.)

13. On the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. (Philosophical Disputation.)

14. On the policy of encouraging manufacturing establishments in the United States. (Deliberative Discussion.)

15. The merits of geological systems. (Disquisition.)

16. The comparative interest and importance of Grecian and Roman history. (Literary Discussion.)

17. The causes of the present pecuniary distresses of the commercial world. (Disquisition.)

18. The effects of the crusades. (Literary Inquiry.)

19. Changes in English style, since the time of Milton. (Literary Discussion.)

20. Comparative advantages of politics and literature as professions in this country. (Deliberative Discussion.)

21. The influence of the dramatic writers on the age of Elizabeth and Charles the Second. (Literary Discussion.)

22. The restoration of Greece to political independence. (Deliberative Discussion.)

23. The literary influence of the early English prose writers. (Literary Disquisition.)

24. Of presenting literature and science in popular forms. (Literary Discussion.)

25. Manual and intellectual labor. (Philosophical Discussion.)

26. Will the present proposed parliamentary reform endanger the monarchical and aristocratical portion of the British constitution. (Deliberative Discussion.)

27. Importance of independent criticism to the growth of national literature. (Literary Disquisition.)

28. Causes of ill health in literary men. (Philosophical Disquisition.) 29. The influence of superstition on science and literature. (Philosophical Discussion.)

30. English biography and French memoirs. (Literary Discussion.) 31. Are political improvements best effected by rulers, or the people. (Deliberative Discussion.)

32. The influence of ancient art on ancient literature. (Literary Disquisition.)

33. The poet of an early age, and of a civilized one. (Literary Discussion.) 34. Comparative utility of the moral and physical sciences, in the present age. (Philosophical Discussion.)

35. On what does the security of our institutions depend? (Political Disquisition.)