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SECOND PAPER.

1. Is Will simply the strongest Desire ?

2. How far are Thought and Will opposed to one another?

3. Is there ever a desire for the pleasure of self-satisfaction?

4. Is Mill's distinction of pleasures according to their quality consistent with the hedonistic basis of his theory?

5. Distinguish between Good and Moral Good.

6. "Moral Goodness must realise itself in Persons." Explain this.

7. How does the ideal of Perfection determine the moral development of man?

8. Show how the idea of Common Good is enlarged and specified.

1. What are the conditions of ambiguity in terms? 2. State in logical form and give the logical opposites of

Only the just are good.

3. Why can there be only three terms and three propositions in a syllogism?

4. Why can the second figure prove only negative and the third only particular conclusions?

5. What is meant by the Quantification of the Predicate? What are some of the advantages claimed for it?

6. Give examples of a proposition and a syllogism in extension; also in intension.

7. How are Induction and Deduction employed in scientific discovery?

8. State in syllogistic form and examine the following arguments :—

(a) None but whites are civilized; the ancient Germans were whites; therefore they were civilized.

(b) No one is rich who has not enough; no miser has enough; therefore no miser is rich.

(c) He who is content with what he has is truly

rich; a covetous man is not content with what he has; no covetous man therefore is truly rich.

(d) The law of Moses prohibited theft, murder, &c. But that law is abolished; therefore theft, murder, &c., are not prohibited.

(e) Almost all the metals are solids; therefore tin is a solid.

Political Economy.

1. (a) Define wealth. Show by examples (b) that some useful objects are not included under that term, (c) that some things are wealth to the individual which are not wealth to the nation.

2. Distinguish actual from potential capital, and show the bearing of this distinction on the alleged possibility of a benefit to industry from the interference of government.

3. "The day's wage of the labourer is greater in Canada than in Britain." Show what causes may so increase the productiveness of labour in the former case. that its real cost to the employer may be even less.

4. (a) Distinguish Communism from Socialism. (b) Examine the doctrine that labour alone is the substance of value.

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5. State the "law of Diminishing Returns" from land. (b) Deduce therefrom the "Theory of Rent, and (c) show under what limitations the theory is applicable.

6. In what circumstances may Trades-Unions achieve a permanent increase in wages, and in what circumstances will they likely fail to secure that result?

7. (a) Distinguish value from price. (b) Show that there can be no universal fall or rise in values. (c) What are the necessary conditions of value?

8. State and examine objections to a protective tariff or a system of bounties.

9. (a) On what grounds may a government justly exercise the power of taxation? (b) What rules should be observed in exercising that power? (e) Give reasons for and against a system of indirect taxation.

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