scientific use? 3. What is a _molecule_,
and of what is it regarded as composed? 4. What is an _element_ in
chemistry?

EXAMPLES.

Lucretius held that the universe originated from a fortuitous
concourse of ----s.

But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amidst the war of ----s,
The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.

Many aquatic animals, whose food consists of small ---- diffused
through the water, have an apparatus for creating currents so as to
bring such ---- within their reach.

* * * * *

PATIENCE (page 265).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _patience_? 2. What is _endurance_? 3. How does _patience_
compare with _submission_ and _endurance_? 4. To what are _submission_
and _resignation_ ordinarily applied? 5. What is _forbearance_? How
does it compare with _patience_?

EXAMPLES.

With ---- bear the lot to thee assigned,
Nor think it chance, nor murmur at the load,
For know what man calls Fortune is from God.

There is, however, a limit at which ---- ceases to be a virtue.

* * * * *

PAY (page 266).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _pay_? _compensation_? _remuneration_? _recompense_? 2. What
is an _allowance_? 3. What are _wages_? _earnings_? 4. What is _hire_?
what does it imply? 5. For what is _salary_ paid? How does it differ
from _wages_? 6. What is a _fee_, and for what given?

EXAMPLES.

I am not aware that ----, or even favors, however gracious, bind any
man's soul.

Our praises are our ----.

Carey, in early life, was a country minister with a small ----.

Laborers are remunerated by ----, and officials by ----.

* * * * *

PEOPLE (page 266).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _community_? a _commonwealth_? 2. What is a _people_? a
_race_? 3. What is a _state_? a _nation_? 4. What does _population_
signify? _tribe_?

EXAMPLES.

A ---- may let a king fall, and still remain a ----, but if a king
let his ---- slip from him, he is no longer a king.

Questions of ---- have played a great part in the politics and wars
of the latter half of the nineteenth century, the Germanic ----, the
Slavonic ----, the Italian, and the Greek ----s struggling to assert
their unity.

* * * * *

PERCEIVE (page 267).

QUESTIONS.

1. What class of things do we _percei