Topics for the Fourth Forensic in English C.

The following is a list of the topics for the fourth forensic in English C. This forensic will be due on April 25. The third forensics will be returned to the students on April 18 and will be handed back to the instructors with the fourth on April 25. Failure to return a forensic affects the student's mark.

1. Is it true that Wordsworth "has no style"? [Quoted from preface to M. Arnold's "Selections from Wordsworth," xxii. Contra: Principal Shairp's "Aspects of Poetry;" Essay, Poetic Style in Modern English Poetry."]

2. Did the study of Roman law influence the growth of English law.

3. Are there grounds for saying that the general fall in prices is an evil?

4. Is Bourget's view that Renan is an intellectual aristocrat borne out by facts.

5. Have the Jews never developed a philosophy of their own?

6. Is a real conflict between science and religion impossible?

7. Is not the Glacial period divisible into several glacial and interglacial epochs?

8. Was the supremacy of the Franks due to the manner of their conquest?

9. Was the execution of John Hus a violation of good faith on the part of the Empire?

10. Is the parallel drawn by Gervinus and Scherer between Parcival and Simplicissimus fundamentally wrong?

11. Are Macaulay's charges against Bacon extravagantly unjust? Was he guilty only of simply nominal corruption, and that palliated or excusable by precedent?

12. Has the atmosphere of the earth been subjected to great changes in mass or in chemical constitution since the dawn of light?

13. Did Charlemagne owe his greatness more to his German blood than to his contact with Latin culture?

14. Did the ordinary education of Pliny's time give a mental training as valuable as do our modern high schools and academies?

15. Does a comparison of the work of Shakspere and of Marlowe up to 1593 warrant the conclusion that in a young author versatility is a more promising trait than originality?

16. Is Dowden's view of Shakspere's personality plausible?

17. Can we reduce all associations to association of contiguity?

18. Is it possible to resolve the will into mere sensations?

19. Was Calvin justified in his prosecution of Servetus?

20. Can it be proved from Pliny's letters that the decline of the Roman Empire had begun in his time?