8. Different views have been taken of the meaning of the name 9. What reasons are there against identifying Hilkiah, the father of Jeremiah, with Hilkiah the high-priest, who bore so important a share in Josiah's work of reformation (2 Kings, xvii.)? 10. What explanations have been suggested of the introduction of the Chaldee passage in ch. x. (ver. II)? 11. How is the narrative of the punishment of Urijah by Jehoiakim (ch. xxvi. 20, &c.) relevant to the context? 12. Translate into Hebrew the following :— The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem ; And say unto them, thus saith the Lord God of Israel: cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God: That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, so be it, O LORD. WRAY PRIZE EXAMINATION. MILL'S LOGIC, AND BUTLER. DR. STUBBS. 1. What examples does Mill give of each of the two signs from which an unresolved law of Causation may be inferred to be a derivative law ? 2. What two considerations give at the present day a character of completeness and conclusiveness to the universality of the law of Causation? Give examples of the second of these. 3. How does Mill point out what he considers to be the defects of Bacon's view of Inductive philosophy? 4. What did Bentham mean by a self-corroborative and a self-infirmative chain of evidence? What are the types of both arguments ? and give examples. 5. Mill gives an instance from Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity of the Fallacy of False Analogy-involving a double error? 6. In Berkeley's famous argument for the existence of an Universal Mind, it may be shown that he was led away by an ambiguity of language. 1. How does Butler show that there is no presumption from analogy against a revelation at the beginning of the world whether it be called miraculous or not? 2. Discuss the cogency of his argument involving "the story of Cæscr or any other man.” 3. How does he answer the assertion that a sense of interest would as effectually restrain men from doing wrong, as the principle of virtue strengthened into a habit? 4. Butler cites an instance which shows that the notions of justice and injustice remain even while we endeavour to suppose them removed? 5. What objections to his argument appear to be plausible owing to half-views and to undeterminate language, and how does he reply to them? 6. How does Butler show that no degree of guilt or injury can supersede the duty of love or good will? nor can the natural love we have to ourselves dispense with it? 7. Explain the truth of the statement that one man may be more resenting or compassionate than another, and yet not have the principle of resentment or compassion stronger than the other. 8. What account does Butler give of self-partiality or self-deceit traced up to its origin ? 9. How does he show that there is no peculiar contrariety between self-love and benevolence (a) as affections of the mind; (B) as to the course of action to which they respectively lead? SCHWEGLER.-HAMILTON.-MILL ON HAMILTON. DR. SHAW. 1. Hamilton enumerates five reasons given by antecedent philosophers for denying the immediate perception of the external world. Briefly mention those reasons, and Hamilton's refutation of each. 2. What merit does Hamilton claim for his method of dealing with the question of Liberty and Necessity? and why does he refuse this merit to Kant? 3. Cite any facts you are aware of (including those mentioned by Hamilton and Jouffroy) bearing on the question, "Is the mind always consciously active ?" 4. Show by quotations from his works that Plato held inconsistent views with respect to the relation of his Ideas to the world of Sense. 5. From his theory of the relation of dúvaμic and ivέpyeta, Aristotle endeavours in various ways to determine the idea of the Absolute Spirit or First Cause. Give the several methods. 6. Schwegler considers Neo-Platonism to represent at once "the final gathering in" and the "dissolution" of ancient philosophy. On what grounds? 7. What were the main merits and what the main defects of the Cartesian system of philosophy? 8. It has been objected to the theory of Causation propounded by the Sensualist School that, on their principles, Day ought to be the cause of Night. (a) Give Mill's answer to this objection; and (3) consider whether another answer might not be founded on the view that, in a certain sense, Day is the cause of Night. 9. "Not only therefore," says Mill, "what to one man seems unimaginable, another believes to be true, but the same man believes to be true what to himself seems unimaginable." (a). By what instances does Mill establish this proposition? (B). Admitting the truth of the proposition, consider whether it does not rather contradict than support the view taken by Mill of necessities of thought. 10. State and discuss the validity of the answer given by Mill to the main argument of Hamilton in favour of Sight as the origin of our notion of Extension. 11. By what three characteristics, successively made known to us, do certain Possibilities of Sensation come to appear to us as something entirely different from mere Sensations? Mention the part taken by language in the process. 12. Prove that Reid (in his Inquiry) was as much a cosmothetic Idealist as Brown, and that Brown was as much a Natural Realist as Hamilton. MR. PANTON. 1. Mention some facts which support Bain's conclusion as to the physical seat of a revived impression. Show that this doctrine is essential in his explanation of the mode in which the intellectual forces of reproduction are aided by the action of the will. 2. Bain introduces his discussion of our Perception of the External World by the question-" What reason have we for believing in the existence of objects apart from, and independent of, our sensations. May not waking thought be itself a dream?" How does he answer this question? What answer is given to the same question by Locke, by Kant, and by Hamilton? How does Bain criticize Mr. Herbert Spencer's answer to the same question ? 3. There are only three possible ways, according to Kant, of explaining the nature of Space and Time. Which of these does he adopt, and how does he show the certainty of his results? Under which of these heads would Space and Time fall in the systems of Locke, Hamilton, Mansel, Bain, and Mr. Herbert Spencer, respectively? How does Kant show that those who maintain either of the doctrines rejected by him are at variance with the principles of experience itself? 4. In what way did the want of a recognised distinction between analytical and synthetical judgments contribute to delay the inquiry undertaken by Kant in his "Critick of Pure Reason"? What were the other causes of this delay ? Point out the uses made by Mansel and Mr. Mahaffy of the above distinction in the discussion of important metaphysical questions. 5. Give a full account of Mansel's discussion of the Principle of Causality. How does he show the important bearing the discussion of this principle and that of Substance has on Logical Science? What is his criticism of the introduction of these conceptions of Substance and Cause by Kant into his Categories ? 6. Give an account of Berkeley's Theory of Vision as stated by Mansel or Bain. Mansel and Bain both notice a confusion in Berkeley's own statement of the theory? What is the fact most favourable to the supporters of the opposed theory; and how, according to Bain, have they misrepresented the case against them? 7. Compare Mansel's and Bain's accounts of the process involved in the formation of concepts, or general notions. What is the precise nature of the concept in each system? Locke and Berkeley are both in error, according to Mansel, in their statement of the process ? Nominalism is laid down by Aristotle in language very similar to Berkeley's? 8. What ideas does Locke find most difficulty in accounting for on his principles of the derivation of all our knowledge? Bain points out the omission in his system which led him into this difficulty? Mansel and Bain both take notice of ambiguities in the word Reflection ? 9. Explain the terms phenomenon, and matter and form of phenomenon; also the terms empirical and transcendental in the Critical Philosophy. How does Kant show that the Ego is known only as phenomenon? 10. Give an account of Mansel's discussion of Judgment. What is his criticism of the views of Locke and Kant on this subject? He points out a difficult metaphysical problem involved in this discussion? SUPPLEMENTAL DIVINITY EXAMINATION. JUNIOR CLASS. DR. LEE. PROFESSOR'S LECTURES. 1. What are the doctrines of Natural Religion, according to Bishop Butler ? 2. S. Paul sanctions the validity of the à posteriori argument: quote his words. 3. Discuss Hume's proposition that "the world is a singular effect." 4. Give the leading arguments in proof of the immortality of the soul. 5. The existence of evil is a greater difficulty for the Pantheist than for the Christian? 6. What assumptions are made by those who deny the efficacy of Prayer? 7. Show that if the New Testament is true, Moses was the author of the Pentateuch. 8. Account for the fact that a certain part of the Book of Daniel is written in Chaldee. 9. What portion of the New Testament has been most fiercely assailed in recent times, and why? 10. What is Mr. J. S. Mill's comment on the argument of Hume against Miracles in general? 11. How did Archbishop Whately express in syllogistic form Hume's objection to the validity of testimony in proof of Miracles? |