11.Is the human soul confined to any part of the human body; and, if so, to what part? Mr.Stewart.Handled, June 28.
12.Mr.Reid.-- Are the objects of the human mind properly divided into impressions and ideas? And must every idea be a copy of a preceding impression.Handled, July 13and 26.
Jan.25, no questions.
Feb.8, 22.March 8, none.
13. Mr.Gordon.-- What is the origin of polytheism? Handled, Aug.10.
14. Mr.Gerard.-- What are the proper subjects of demonstrative reasoning? Handled, Aug.
23, and Sept.13
15. Mr.Farquhar.-- Upon what the characters of men chiefly depend? Nov.1516. What is the apparent figure of the heavens, and what are the causes of it? Humanist, Nov.1517. Whether justice be a natural or artificial virtue.Nov.22.
April 22.
18. Mr.Farquhar.-- In the perfection of what faculty does genius consist? Or if in a combination of faculties what are they? Superseded, because the subject of Mr.Gerard's discourses.
19.What are the parts of the body so connected with the several faculties of the mind that the destruction of those parts brings on a destruction of the exercise of those faculties.Dec.13.
20.Dr.Gregorie.-- What are the plants that enrich a soil and what are those that impoverish it, and what are the causes of their enriching it, and impoverishing it? Feb.11, 175921.Dr.Skene.-- Wherein does happiness consist? March 28.
22.Whether the ideas of mixed modes are to be considered as the mere creatures of the mind, or are formed after patterns, as well as the ideas of the substances whereof they are modes.Mr.Trail, Feb.11, 1759.
23.Mr.Campbell.-- Whether matter has a separate and permanent existence. The nature of contrariety.May 30.
24.Mr.Stewart.-- Whether the sense of hearing may not be asserted by act, in like manner as that of seeing is by optical glasses.April it.
25.Mr.Reid.-- Whether mankind with regard to morals always was and is the same.June 12.
26.In what cases and for what causes is lime a proper manure? Mr.Thos.Gordon.July 24, and Aug.1427.Mr.Gerard.-- What is the origin of civil government? June 26.
28.Mr.Farquhar.-- What is the foundation of moral obligation? Sept.26.
29.Mr.Ross.-- How can it be accounted for that an inflammable spirit is obtained from regenerated tartar (vinegar saturated with chalk or saccharum saturne by distillation)? Or how comes it about that vinegar is restored to the state of an ardent spirit by being distilled with fixed alkali, chalk, or lead? Oct.16, 175930.Dr.Gregorie.-Whether the Socratic method of instruction or that of prelection is preferable.Jan.8, 1760.
31.How far the ancient method of education in public seminaries from earliest infancy was preferable or inferior to the modern practice.By Dr.Skene, NOV.27, 175932.Mr.Trail.-- What is the Agrian law which will conduce most to the populousness of a nation? Or what is the maximum of estates fittest for that purpose? {469}
33.Whether education in public schools or by private tutors be preferable.Principal Campbell, Dec.", 1759, and Feb.26, 1760.
34.Mr.Stewart.-- Whether the time allotted for teaching Greek in the universities of Scotland be not too short, and, if so, what would be the proper remedy.Feb.26, 1760.
35.Mr.Reid.-- Whether it is proper to educate children without instilling principles into them of any kind whatsoever.April 1, 1760.
36.Mr.Gordon.-- Whether there be not, in the very nature of our reaching societies, a tendency to stop farther advancement in those branches of learning which they profess.And, if it is so, what is the best remedy.June 24, and July 9, 1760.
37.Prof.Gerard.-- In what manner the general course of education may be conducted so as it may answer best as a preparation for the different businesses of life.Aug.12, 1760.
38.What is the best method for training to the practice of virtue? Mr.Farquhar.Dec.9, 1760.
39.What are the natural consequences of high national debt; and whether, upon the whole, it be a benefit to a nation or not? Dr.Gregorie.Jan.13, 1761.
40.Whether paper credit be beneficial to a nation or not.Dr.Skene, Feb.24.
41.What is the cause of the apparent color of the heavens? Or what is properly the object to which that color can be attributed? Principal Campbell, March to.
42.Whether the idea of cause and effect include in it any thing more than their constant conjunction.And, if so, what it is that it includes.Prof.Stew.art.March 10th and 31st 43.Mr.Trail.-- Whether the substituting of machines instead of men's labor, in order to lessen the expense of labor, contributes to the populousness of a country.Feb.2444.Mr.Reid.-- Whether moral character consists in affections, wherein the will is not concerned; or in fixed habitual and constant purposes.April 15.
45.Mr.Gordon.-Whether slavery be in all cases inconsistent with good government.NOV.2446.Mr.Gerard.-- Whether there be any such affection in human nature as universal benevolence.Dec.8.
47.Mr.Farquhar.-Whether in writing history it be proper to mix moral and political reflexions or to draw characters.Dec.8.
48.Whence does man derive the authority which he assumes over the brutes, and how far does this authority extend? Mr.Beattie.Dec.22, 1761.
49.What are the best expedients for preventing an extravagant rise of servants' wages, and for obliging them to bestow their labor where agriculture and manufactures require it.Jan.12, 1762.Occasional question.
50.Doctor Gregorie.-- What are the good and bad effects of the provision for the poor by poor's rates, infirmaries, hospitals, and the like? Feb.9.
51.Doctor Skene.-- Whether the determination by unanimity or a majority injuries is most equitable.March 9.
52.Doctor Campbell.-- How far human laws can justly make alterations on what seems to be founded on the principles of the law of nature.March 23.
53, Mr.Stewart.-Whether human laws be binding on the consciences of men.April 16.
