nify?
2. What is _hypocrisy_? 3. What is _cant_? _sanctimoniousness_? 4. What
is _pietism_? _formalism_? _sham_? 5. How does _affectation_ compare
with _hypocrisy_?
EXAMPLES.
Let not the Trojans, with a feigned ---- of proffered peace, delude
the Latian prince.
---- is a fawning and flexible art, which accommodates itself to
human feelings, and flatters the weakness of men in order that it
may gain its own ends.
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HYPOCRITE (page 204).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _hypocrite_ derived? What is its primary
meaning? 2. What common term includes the other words of the group? 3.
How are _hypocrite_ and _dissembler_ contrasted with each other? 4. What
element is common to the _cheat_ and the _impostor_? How do the two
compare with each other?
EXAMPLES.
It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest ----.
I dare swear he is no ---- but prays from his heart.
In the reign of Henry VII., an ----, named Perkin Warbeck, laid
claim to the English crown.
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HYPOTHESIS (page 205).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _hypothesis_? What is its use in scientific investigation
and study? 2. What is a _guess_? a _conjecture_? a _supposition_? a
_surmise_? 3. What implication does _surmise_ ordinarily convey? What is
a _theory_? a _scheme_? a _speculation_? How do they differ?
EXAMPLES.
----, fancies, built on nothing firm.
There are no other limits to ---- than those of the human mind.
The development ----, tho widely accepted by men of science fails of
proof at many important points.
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IDEA (page 206).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _idea_ derived, and what did it originally
mean? 2. What did _idea_ signify in early philosophical use? 3. What is
its present popular use, and with what words is it now synonymous?
EXAMPLES.
All rests with those who read. A work or ----
Is what each makes it to himself.
He who comes up to his own ---- of greatness must always have had a
very low standard of it in his mind.
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IDEAL (page 206).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _ideal_? 2. What is an _archetype_? a _prototype_? 3. Can
a _prototype_ be equivalent to an _archetype_? 4. Is an _ideal_ primal,
or the result of development? 5. What is an _
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