See CAMPBELL's British Poets.

DR. JOHNSON's Parallel between Dryden and Pope.
"Lives of the Poets."

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S Works, vol. ii. pp. 520--522.
LORD BYRON's Strictures on Bowles.

28. Which has done the greater Service to Truth, Philosophy or Poetry?

See Edinburgh Review, vol. xxi. p. 294.
BACON's Advancement of Learning.

Also the Works quoted in a previous theme in this
Volume.

NOTE. - Philosophy is here meant to signify intellectual wisdom; and poetry, that inspiration respecting truth which great poets exhibit, and which seems to be quite independent of acquired knowledge. Philosophy is cultivated reason, poetry is a moral instinct towards the True and Beautiful. To decide the question we must see what we owe on the one hand to the discoveries of our philosophers; to Socrates, Plato, Epicurus, Bacon, Newton, Locke: and on the other, for what amount and sort of truth we are indebted to the intuition and inspiration of our poets, as Homer, Milton, Dante, Shakspere.

29. Is an Advocate justified in defending a Man whom he knows to be Guilty of the Crime with which he is charged?

See SYDNEY SMITH's Works, vol. i. "On Counsel being allowed to Prisoners."

BENTHAM. Judicial Establishment.

BROUGHAM on the Duty of a Barrister.
PALEY'S Moral Philosophy.

See PUNCH's Letters to his Son. "On the Choice of a

Profession."

SYDNEY TAYLOR's Works, vol. i. pp. 102, 103.

30. Is it likely that England will sink into the Decay which befell the Nations of Antiquity?

See PLAYFAIR'S Enquiry into the Fall of Nations.
BACON'S Essay on Kingdoms.
VOLNEY'S Ruins of Empires.

GIBBON'S Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
SOUTHEY'S Progress and Prospects of Society.
VAUGHAN'S Age of Great Cities.

31. Are Lord Byron's Writings Moral in their Tendency?

See LORD JEFFREY'S Essays, vol. ii. pp. 366-371.
MACAULAY'S Critical Essays, vol. i. pp. 311. 352.
SYDNEY TAYLOR's Works, p. 288.

NOTE.-The works of Byron must here be looked at as a whole, and not be judged by isolated passages: they must be tried, too, by eternal, and not by fashionable, morality.

32. Do the Mechanicians of Modern equal those of Ancient Times?

See FOSBROOKE and DUNHAM'S Roman Arts and Manufac

tures.

Greek Ditto.

WILKINSON'S Ancient Egypt.
PETTIGREW's Ditto.

MAURICE'S Ancient Hindostan.

HEEREN'S Historical Researches.

33. Which is the greater Civiliser, the Statesman or the Poet?

See Debate No. I. p. 1.

CARLYLE'S Hero Worship. "The Hero as Poet."
GUICCIARDINI'S Maxims; Martin's Translation.
See also the authorities quoted in Debate I.

34. Which is the greater Writer, Charles Dickens or Lord Lytton?

See The Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly, BLACKWOOD'S Magazine, HORNE's Spirit of the Age, FRASER'S Magazine: various articles on the subject during the last twenty-five years.

35. Is the Principle of Utility a safe Moral Guide? See BENTHAM'S Works; LORD JEFFREY'S Essays, vol. ii pp. 303-310.

MADAME DE STAEL'S opinions thereon.

An able article on the subject in the New Monthly
Magazine for 1837.

ROBERT HALL on Expediency.

PALEY'S Moral Philosophy.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S Works, vol. i. pp. 15, 16. 193.

and 242.

DYMOND'S Essays, pp. 4. 28. 123.

36. Was the Deposition of Louis XVI. justifiable? See CARLYLE'S, THIERS', DE STAEL'S and MACFARLANE'S History of the French Revolution.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH's Works, vol. iii. pp. 3—352.
LORD JEFFREY's Essays, vol. ii. pp. 40—45.

Historic Fancies. By the Hon. G. SMYTHE.

37. Is the Use of Oaths for Civil Purposes expedient?

See BENTHAM's Tract on the Needlessness of an Oath. HANSARD. "Debates in Parliament" on this subject. DYMOND'S Essays, pp. 58-67.

38. Is a Classical Education essential to an English Gentleman?

See MILTON on Education.

WHEWELL'S University Education.

LOCKE'S Thoughts on Education.

AMOS's Lectures on the Advantages of a Classical Education.

ROBERT HALL on Classical Learning.

SYDNEY SMITH's Works, vol. i. pp. 183-199.

Edinburgh Review, vol. xv. pp. 41-51.

39. Are Colonies advantageous to the Mother Country?

See M'CULLOCH's Edition of Smith's Wealth of Nations.
MERIVALE'S Lectures on Colonies.

TORRENS on Colonisation.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S Works, vol. iii. p. 325.
BRANDE'S Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art.
Art. "Colonies," and the works there quoted.

40. Which does the most to produce Crime Wealth, or Ignorance?

See DUMAS's Celebrated Crimes.

BACON on the Uses of Knowledge.

See DR. HARRIS'S Mammon.

FOSTER'S Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance.
ROBERT HALL on the Hardships of Poverty.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S Works, vol. iii. pp. 371-376.
Edinburgh Review, vol. xlviii. pp. 176–181.

41. Is the Unanimity required from Juries conducive to the Attainment of the Ends of Justice?

See BLACKSTONE'S Commentaries on the Laws.

BENTHAM'S Judicial Establishment.

BENTHAM on Government and Special Juries.
STEPHENS' Commentaries on the Law.

SYDNEY TAYLOR's Works, pp. 392. 397. 413.

42. Is it not the Duty of a Government to establish a System of National Education?

See LOCKE's Thoughts on Education.

WYSE on Education.

CHANNING on Education.

JAMES'S Educational Institutions of Germany.

Fox's Lectures on Education.

SIMPSON'S Popular Education.

GODWIN'S Reflections on Education.

ROUSSEAU'S Emile.

MELVILL'S University Sermons.

ROBERT HALL on Knowledge.

Life of WILLIAM ALLEN, pp. 84-86.

43. Are the intellectual Faculties of the Dark Races of Mankind essentially inferior to those of

the White?

See LAWRENCE's Natural History of Man

PRICHARD'S Physical History of Mankind