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No.
120. Roman Genius is Imperial,
121. Class Legislation preceded Equitable Legislation
at Rome,
122, 123. Cicero's Compendium of Legislation for his
Ideal State,
124. Sumptuary Laws at Rome,
125. The Roman Theory and Practice of Adoption,
126, 127. Hints on the Examination of Witnesses in
Court,
128. Any Repudiation of its Engagements by the State
should at all costs be avoided,
129. Some Questions of Commercial Casuistry,
130. Education. -The most Effective Education is by
Example,
131. A Gentleman of the Old School complains that
the Old-fashioned Strictness of Educational
Discipline is unduly relaxed,
132. Dialogue between a Youth and his Paedagogus,
133. Education should be based upon a Knowledge of
Greek,
134. The Memory should be carefully trained and sup-
plied with Knowledge worth remembering,
135. On the Comparative Advantages of School and
Home Training.—(a.) General Statement of
the Question,
Quint.
136. (b.) The Objection considered that School Life
is Dangerous to Innocence of Character, Quint.
137. (c.) The Objection considered that Sufficient
Individual Attention cannot be given at
School,
138. (d.) On the Advantage of encouraging a Spirit
of Healthy Emulation among the Young, Quint.
149
150
139. (.) Precocity not to be encouraged,
140. On the Necessity for Mutual Confidence between
Master and Pupil,
151
141. Persius describes the Influence of his Tutor,
Cornutus, upon him,
142. The Young Romans were taught how to discuss
on their Merits Questions involving some of
the Broad Principles of Law,
143. Truths are best taught to the Young by Instances,
144. The Pleasures of Physical Research,
145. In the Sphere of Physical Speculation Certainty
is Unattainable,
tion,"
146. On the Latent Ambiguity in the Term "Causa-
147. Nothing can arise out of Nothing: but Like must
arise from Like,
148. Atom-Theory of Lucretius:-(a.) The Universe
made up of Atoms and the Void,
149. (b.) Matter Eternal,
150. (c.) Nature of Atoms and their Constituent
Parts,
151. (d.) Motions of the Original Atoms illustrated,
152. (e.) Variety in Size and Shape of Atoms, and
the Consequences resulting therefrom,
153. (f) Number of Different Shapes in Original
Atoms limited,
154. (g.) Though Atoms are without Sensation, yet
161
this may be generated by their Combination, Lucr.
155. (.) The Existing Universe the Result of a cer-
tain Option of Movement in the Original
Atoms,
156. The Universe formed out of Chaos,
157. Amid the Variety of Conflicting Views as to
the Origin of the Universe, one thing is
certain-viz., that it presents the Spectacle
of an Orderly Arrangement,
158. The Universe Spherical in Form,
Lucr.
Ovid
.
Manil.
159. The Sphere is the most Perfect Figure: Effects
of its Spherical Shape on the several Parts
of the Universe,
160. The Music of the Spheres,
161. Motions of the Sun and Moon: how they affect
the Earth,
162. The Difference in the Orbits of the Sun and Moon
164. An Account of the Moon's Light and Phases,
165. Causes of the Motions of the Stars,
166. The Motions of the Five Planets,
167. The Motions of the Heavenly Bodies have
suggested the Idea of Time,.
168. Diameter of the Zodiac estimated in terms of the
175. Only a Small Portion of the Earth's Surface is
179. A Short Description of Africa,
180. An Account of the River Nile, with Suggestions
as to the Cause of its Annual Overflow,
181. Criticism of the Theory that the Overflow of the
Nile is due to the Etesian Winds,
182. Account of the Climate and Products of Britain,
183. A Geographical Account of Britain,
184. A Geographical Account of Gaul,
185. A Geographical Account of Italy,
186. An Estimate of the Area of India, with an
Account of some of its Leading Features,
187. An Account of Ceylon, taken from the Statement
of Four Cingalese Envoys,
188. Relative Measurements of the Quarters of the
Globe,
189. The Rotundity of the Earth considered with
reference to the Question of Antipodes,
190. How far is the Rotundity of the Earth compatible
with the existence of Large Bodies of Water
on its Surface,
191. The Epicurean Physics deny the Existence of
Antipodes,
192. The Cause of Night and Morning,
193. The Causes of the Different Lengths of Days,
194. There are Two Kinds of Fire: Bodily Heat differs
from Combustible Heat,
199. Explanation of the Phenomenon of a Solar Halo,
200. The Causes why Vapour and Heat arise from the
Earth,
201. Considerations tending to prove that Air is a
Continuous Fluid Substance,
202. The Cause and Formation of the Rainbow,
203. The Philosopher Favorinus discusses the Theory
of the Winds,
204. There are eight Main Quarters from which
Winds blow,
205. The numerous Names of Winds are easily recon-
cilable with the Scientific Reduction of their
Number to Eight,
206. An Attempt to account for the Water on the Sur-
face of the Earth as a Secretion analagous to
those of the Human Body,
207. The Earth destined to be again overwhelmed by
a Flood,
Plin., N.H. 200
208. A Theory of the Tides:-(a.) They are due to a
Combination of Solar and Lunar Influence,
209. (b.) Variations in their Periodicity,
210. (c.) The greater the Surface of Water, the more
conspicuous is the Tidal Motion,
211. The Earth is an Organism analagous to the
Human Body,
212. An Inquiry into the Cause of Earthquakes,
213. The Fallacy that the Tops of the Highest Moun-
tains might be expected to be Warmer than
the Valleys, refuted, .
214. Some Remarkable Properties of Minerals,
215. An Account of Copper Ore and Copper Mines,
216. An Explanation of the Superior Hardness of
Cement that has been subjected to the Ac-
tion of Fire,
217. An Analysis of the Different Properties of Stone-
producing Soils,
218. An Account of Reflecting Substances,
219. The Reason of the Reflection in a Mirror,
220. A Short Account of the Properties of Lead,
221. An Account of the Magnet,
222. The Wonderful Properties of the Diamond,
223. The Chief Distinctive Properties common to
Precious Stones,
Plin., N.H. 209
Plin., N.H. 210
The Earth:-(b.) Organic Nature.
224. The Four Graduated Stages of Creation: the
Vegetable, the Animal, the Human, the
Divine,
225. The Mental Development of Animals excludes
them from attaining "the Good,"
226. The Different Classes of (Vegetable and) Animal
Life formed by a Difference in the proportion
of the Four Original Elements,
227. A Stage in all Organic Bodies at which Growth
and Development cease, and Decay begins, . Lucr.
228. Certain Distinctions of Species cannot be obliter-
ated,
229. Owing to the Struggle for Existence, Species tend
to become Extinct if not artificially preserved,
230. An Explanation of the Qualities of Timber,
231, 232. Description of the best-known and most
serviceable Woods,
233, 234. Effect of Climatic and Meteorological Con-
ditions upon various Trees and Plants,
235. The Marvellous Variety of Animal Life,
236. Nature has supplied all Living Creatures with
the most Appropriate Organs for obtaining
their Food,
237. Instinct suggests to Animals the readiest and
most effective means of satisfying their Ne-
cessities,
238. The Source of Instinct an Unsolved Mystery,
239. The Sanitary Features of a District may be in-
ferred from the Effect of its Vegetable Pro-
ducts upon the Animals that inhabit it,
240. On Variation of Type and Hybridation, .
Vitruv.
213
214
215
219
Plin., N.H. 220
246. Climate determines the Physical Characteristics
of Nations,
247. Climate determines the Mental Qualities of
Nations,
248. The Situation of Italy favourable to the De-
velopment of the Highest Physical and
Mental Capacity,
249. A Comparison of Man with the rest of Creation,
250. Opinions and Statistics with reference to Lon-
gevity,
251. The Question of Life after Death discussed from
a Physical Point of View,
252. The Brain,
253. On Sleep and Dreams,
254. The Cause of a Good Memory,
255. The Problem discussed, why the Things which
excite our several Senses most keenly are
those that produce Satiety the soonest,
256. Arguments to show the Natural as distinct from
the Conventional Origin of Language,
257. On the Nature of Sight,
258. A Disquisition on Colours by the Philosopher
Favorinus,
259. A Continuation by Fronto,
260. On Sounds,
261. The Principles of Geometrical Proportion are
based on the Proportional Relations which
obtain in the Human Body,
262. Reasons, founded on Observation of the Human
Body, why Six and Ten should be considered
Perfect Numbers,
263. Nature Hostile to Man,
264, 265. A Short History of the Art of Medicine,
266. Arguments for a Scientific Method in Medicine,
267. Arguments used by those who advocate Empiri-
cism in Medicine,
Cels.
241
268. The Arguments for Vivisection were in the First
Century of the Empire extended so as to
include the Human Subject, .
269. Arguments commonly urged against Vivisection, Cels.
270. A few Remarks on Surgery, with the Qualifica-
tions of a good Surgeon,
242