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PART II.
OUTLINES OF DEBATES.
SUBJECTS.
1. Which does the greater injury to Society- the
Miser, or the Spendthrift?
2. Is Universal Peace probable?
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232
8. Is the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte to be
admired?
251
9. Was the Execution of Charles the First justi-
fiable?
10. Which is the more happy-a Barbarous, or
Civilised, man?
PART III.
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION.
1. Which was the greater man, Oliver Cromwell or
Napoleon Bonaparte?
2. Was the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
justifiable?
261
262
3. Has the Invention of Gunpowder been of Benefit
to Mankind?
4. Which is the more valuable member of society
a great Mechanician, or a great Poet?
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5. Which was the greater orator, Demosthenes or
Cicero ?
263
6. Which is the more despicable character, the
Hypocrite or the Liar?
264
7. Has the Fear of Punishment, or the Hope of
Reward, the greater Influence on Human
Conduct?
8. Is Corporal Punishment justifiable?
265
9. Was Brutus justified in killing Cæsar?
10. Should Emulation be encouraged in Education?
11. Which was the greater Poet, Milton or Homer? -
12. Is Military Renown a fit Object of Ambition? - 266
13. Is Ambition a Vice or a Virtue?
266
14. Has Novel-reading a Moral Tendency?
15. Is the Character of Queen Elizabeth deserving
of our Admiration?
16. Is England rising or falling as a Nation?
17. Has Nature or Education the greater Influence
in the Formation of Character ?
18. Which is the more valuable Metal, Gold or Iron ? 269
19. Is War in any case justifiable?
21. Can any Circumstances justify a Departure from
Truth?
22. Is Sporting justifiable?
23. Does not Virtue necessarily produce Happiness,
and does not Vice necessarily produce Misery,
in this Life?
24. From which does the Mind gain the more Know-
ledge, Reading or Observation?
vi
25. Have the Gold Mines of Spain, or the Coal Mines
of England, been more Beneficial to the
World?
26. Which was the greater General, Hannibal or
Alexander?
271
272
27. Which was the greater Poet, Dryden or Pope?
28. Which has done the greater Service to Truth,
Philosophy or Poetry?
29. Is an Advocate justified in defending a Man
whom he knows to be Guilty of the Crime with
which he is charged?
30. Is it likely that England will sink into the Decay
which befell the Nations of Antiquity?
31. Are Lord Byron's Writings Moral in their Ten-
dency?
273
274
275
32. Do the Mechanicians of Modern equal those of
Ancient Times?
33. Which is the greater Civilizer, the Statesman or
the Poet?
34. Which is the greater Writer, Charles Dickens
or Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton? -
35. Is the Principle of Utility a safe Moral Guide?
36. Was the Deposition of Louis XVI. justifiable?
37. Is the Use of Oaths for Civil Purposes expedient? 276
38. Is a Classical Education essential to an English
Gentleman?
276
39. Are Colonies advantageous to the Mother Country? 277
40. Which does the most to produce Crime,-Poverty,
Wealth, or Ignorance?
41. Is the Unanimity required from Juries conducive
to the Attainment of the Ends of Justice?
42. Is it not the Duty of a Government to establish
a System of National Education ?
43. Are the Intellectual Faculties of the Dark Races
of Mankind essentially Inferior to those of the
White?
44. Is Transportatiom a fit and effective Punish-
ment?
45. Should not all Punishment be Reformatory?
46. Is a Limited Monarchy, like that of England, the
best Form of Government?
279
47. Is not Private Virtue essentially requisite to Great-
ness of Public Character?
280
48. Is Eloquence a gift of Nature," or may it be ac-
quired?
49. Is Genius an Innate Capacity?
50. Is a Rude or a Refined Age the more favourable
to the production of Works of Imagination? - 280
51. Is the Shaksperian the Augustan Age of English
Literature?
52. Is there any Standard of Taste?
53. Ought Pope to rank in the First Class of Poets? 281
54. Has the Introduction of Machinery been ge-
nerally Beneficial to Mankind?
282
55. Which produce the greater Happiness, the Plea-
sures of Hope or of Memory?
56. Is the Existence of Parties in a State favourable
to the Public Welfare?
57. Is there any Ground for believing in the ultimate
Perfection and universal Happiness of the Hu-
man Race?
58. Is Co-operation more adapted to Promote the
Virtue and Happiness of Mankind than Com-
petition?
59. Was the Banishment of Napoleon to St. Helena
a justifiable proceeding?
60. Ought Persons to be excluded from Civil Offices
on account of their Religious Opinions?
61. Which exercises the greater Influence in the Civi-
lisation and Happiness of the Human Race,
the Male, or the Female mind?
62. Which did the most to produce the French Revo-
lution - the Tyranny of the Government, the
Excesses of the Higher Orders, or the Writings
of Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau ?
63. Which was the greater Poet, Byron or Burns?
64. Is there reasonable Ground for believing that the
Character of Richard the Third was not so
Atrocious as is generally supposed?
284
285
65. Does Happiness or Misery preponderate in Life? 286
66. Should the Press be totally Free?
286
287
67. Do modern Geological Discoveries agree with
Holy Writ?