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vulgarism? 4. What is cant in the sense here considered?
EXAMPLES.
There is a ---- bred of vileness that is never redeemed; there is also a ---- that is the vigorous utterance of
uncultured wit, that fills a gap in the language and mounts ultimately to the highest places.
A ---- is worse than ----, because it bears the ineffaceable stamp of ignorance.
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SOCIALISM (page 338).
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QUESTIONS.
1. What is socialism? What term do many of its advocates prefer? 2. What is communism? anarchism?
EXAMPLES.
---- in its full sense means the abolition of inheritance, the abolition of the family, the abolition of
nationalities, the abolition of religion, the abolition of property.
----, in some modified form, is steadily making its way among thinking men under the guise of cooperation.
---- is the offspring of sore hearts and shallow brains. It is the wisdom of the man who burned down his house
because his chimney smoked.
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SPONTANEOUS (page 340).
QUESTIONS.
1. When is anything properly said to be spontaneous? voluntary? involuntary? 2. How do voluntary and
involuntary compare with each other? both with spontaneous?
EXAMPLES.
---- is opposed to reflective. Those operations of mind which are continually going on without any effort or
intention on our part are spontaneous.
No action that is not ---- has any merit.
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SPY (page 340).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what are the spy and the scout alike? 2. In what do they differ? 3. What are their respective rights in case
of capture? 4. What is an emissary?
EXAMPLES.
A daring ---- of General Stuart made his way to my quarters, and informed me that General Imboden had
planned an attack upon the town.
I had grown uneasy in regard to the disjointed situation of our army and, to inform myself of what was going
on, determined to send a ---- into the enemy's lines.
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STATE, v. (page 341).
QUESTIONS.
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1. From what is state derived? What does it mean? 2. What is the significance of assert? What element is
prominent in this word? 3. What is the relative force of affirm and assert? asseverate? aver? assure? 4. What
does affirm signify in legal use, and how does it differ from swear? 5. What is it to certify? 6. What does
vindicate signify?
EXAMPLES.
The first condition of intelligent debate is that the question be clearly ----ed.
We ---- that the sciences dispose themselves round two great axes of thought, parallel and not unrelated, yet
distinct--the natural sciences held together by the one, the moral by the other.
It is impossible for the mind to ---- anything of that of which it knows nothing.
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STORM (page 343).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential meaning of storm? 2. What is a tempest?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- is hard at hand will sweep away Thrones, churches, ranks, traditions, customs, marriage.
Were any considerable mass of air to be suddenly transferred from beyond the tropics to the equator, the
difference of the rotatory velocity proper to the two situations would be so great as to produce not merely a
wind, but a ---- of the most destructive violence.
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STORY (page 343).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a story? Is it true or false? 2. What is an anecdote? a narrative or narration?
EXAMPLES.
There are ----, common to the different branches of the Aryan stock.... They are ancient Aryan ----, ... older
than the Odyssey, older than the dispersion of the Aryan race.
----s are relations of detached, interesting particulars.
Fairy ----s have for children an inexhaustible charm.
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SUBJECTIVE (page 345).
QUESTIONS.
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1. What is the meaning of subjective? of objective? 2. How are these words illustrated in the case of a
mountain? 3. What matters are purely subjective? 4. What matters are purely objective? 5. What is meant by
saying that an author has a subjective or an objective style?
EXAMPLES.
Subject therefore, denotes the mind itself; and ----, that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the thinking
subject. Object is a term for that about which the knowing subject is conversant, ... while ---- means that
which belongs to, or proceeds from, the object known, and not from the subject knowing; and thus denotes
what is real, in opposition to what is ideal,--what exists in nature, in contrast to what exists merely in the
thought of the individual.
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SUGGESTION (page 347).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what way does a suggestion bring a matter before the mind? 2. What is an intimation? a hint? 3. What
are the special characteristics of insinuation and innuendo?
EXAMPLES.
Behold in the bloom of apples, And the violets in the sward, A ---- of the old, lost beauty Of the garden of the
Lord!
Time is truly the comforter, at once lessening the tendency to ---- of images of sorrow, and softening that very
sorrow when the images arise.
An ---- is cowardly because it can seldom be directly answered, and the one who makes it can always retreat
behind an assumed misconstruction of his words; but the ---- is the stab in the back, sneaking as it is
malicious.
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SUPERNATURAL (page 347).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original meaning of supernatural? of preternatural? 2. What is commonly implied in the use of