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Der ihm der Liebste sey; und stets der Liebste,
Ohn' Ansehn der Geburt, in Kraft allein

Des Rings, das Haupt, der Fürst des Hauses
werde.-

Versteh' mich, Sultan.

Saladin.

Ich versteh' dich. Weiter!

2. Finish in your own words, in German, the story begun in Question 1 (e).

3. Translate into German—

It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the storm mingled with the shrieks of the sea-fowl, and sounded like the dirge of the three devoted beings, who, pent between two of the most magnificent, yet most dreadful objects of nature-a raging tide and an insurmountable precipice-toiled along their painful and dangerous path, often lashed by the spray of some giant billow, which threw itself higher on the beach than those that had preceded it. Each minute did their enemy gain ground perceptibly upon them!

Still, however, loath to relinquish the last hopes of life, they bent their eyes on the black rock pointed out by Ochiltree. It was yet distinctly visible among the breakers, and continued to be so, until they came to a turn in their precarious path, where an intervening projection of rock hid it from their sight. Deprived of the view of the beacon on whch they had relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and

suspense. They struggled forward, however; but when they arrived at the point from which they ought to have seen the crag, it was no longer visible: the signal of safety was lost among a thousand white breakers, which, dashing upon the point of the promontory, rose in prodigious sheets of snowy foam, as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war, against the dark brow of the precipice.

The countenance of the old man fell. Isabella gave a faint shriek; and "God have mercy upon us!" which her guide solemnly uttered, was piteously echoed by Sir Arthur: "My child! my child!-to die such a death!"—“Good man,” he said, "can you think of nothing?-of no help?-I'll make you rich-I'll give you a farm —Î’ll—”—“ Our riches will be soon equal," said the beggar, looking out upon the strife of the

waters.

4. Write, in English, a short critical account of Goethe's Werther's Leiden, and Iphigenie.

5. Give a short account of any three personages in the Nibelungen-lied.

6. Mention any lyrics you remember of Uhland, Rückert, Körner.

7. Write out any short poem you recollect in the "Deutsche Lyrik."

8. Mention any results of the literary connection between Goethe and Schiller.

SCHOOL OF LOGIC AND MENTAL AND

MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

I.-FORMAL LOGIC.

The Board of Examiners.

1. How would you distinguish the problem of Formal Logic from that of Transcendental Logic? And

how is Formal Logic related to the science of Psychology?

2. It has been said that Logic, as a formal science, can borrow nothing from experience. Consider the meaning and accuracy of this statement.

3. Give the theory of the Concept as held by Hamilton, or by Veitch, in its bearing on the problem of Nominalism and Conceptualism.

4. What precisely is the office of the copula in categorical propositions? How would you deal with the statements (a) that the copula should always be regarded as affirmative; (b) that, in a correct analysis of propositions, it should not be separated from the predicate?

5. Show the relation of Disjunctive and Hypothetical propositions. What form, or forms, of the Disjunctive Syllogism would you recognize as valid, and why?

6. Can it be said that every categorical proposition logically implies the existence of objects denoted

by its terms? Consider this question in detail.

7. Reduce the following to logical form, pointing out fallacies, if any :

(a) "In Government, it is good to use men of one rank equally; for to countenance them extraordinarily, is to make them insolent, and the rest discontent; because they may claim a due."

-BACON.

(b) "The cause must either precede the effect, or be simultaneous with it, or succeed it. The last supposition is absurd, and the second would render it impossible to distinguish the cause from the effect. On the first supposition, the cause must cease before the effect comes into being; but, surely, that which is not cannot be a cause. Either, then, there is no cause for any effect, or we are unable to discover it."

8. How would you deal, in Symbolic Logic, with a statement in which disparate terms are equated? Justify your answer, and consider its bearing on the analysis of complicated symbolic statements.

9. It is the rule of a certain library, that all books may be lent out to subscribers, with the exception of new works of reference, and works which are at once old and rare. Give the fullest description possible on these data of all the old books which the library may possess, working out the question symbolically by Venn's inverse process.

II.-INDUCTIVE LOGIC.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Point out the connexion between Mill's analysis of Things denoted by names, and his analysis of the Import of Propositions.

2. Mention reasons which have been given for and against the conclusion that the axioms of geometry are inductions from physical facts.

3. Compare the treatment of the Method of Agreement by Mill and Venn respectively.

4. When it is found by experience that a given effect can always be obtained when certain circumstances are present, what method, or methods, may be employed in excluding indifferent circumstances from the actual conditions of the event? Illustrate your answer.

5. Enumerate, with any comments, the postulates which Venn considers necessary for a material system of Logic.

6. Do laws of sequence and coexistence exhaust the range and significance of the Uniformity of Nature, or must we admit uniformities of other kinds? Consider this question in connexion with the answer given to it by Venn.

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