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m_ signify in legal use, and how does it differ from _swear_? 5. What is it to _certify_? 6. What does _vindicate_ signify? EXAMPLES. The first condition of intelligent debate is that the question be clearly ----ed. We ---- that the sciences dispose themselves round two great axes of thought, parallel and not unrelated, yet distinct--the natural sciences held together by the one, the moral by the other. It is impossible for the mind to ---- anything of that of which it knows nothing. * * * * * STORM (page 343). QUESTIONS. 1. What is the essential meaning of _storm_? 2. What is a _tempest_? EXAMPLES. The ---- is hard at hand will sweep away Thrones, churches, ranks, traditions, customs, marriage. Were any considerable mass of air to be suddenly transferred from beyond the tropics to the equator, the difference of the rotatory velocity proper to the two situations would be so great as to produce not merely a wind, but a ---- of the most destructive violence. * * * * * STORY (page 343). QUESTIONS. 1. What is a _story_? Is it true or false? 2. What is an _anecdote_? a _narrative_ or _narration_? EXAMPLES. There are ----, common to the different branches of the Aryan stock.... They are ancient Aryan ----, ... older than the Odyssey, older than the dispersion of the Aryan race. ----s are relations of detached, interesting particulars. Fairy ----s have for children an inexhaustible charm. * * * * * SUBJECTIVE (page 345). QUESTIONS. 1. What is the meaning of _subjective_? of _objective_? 2. How are these words illustrated in the case of a mountain? 3. What matters are purely _subjective_? 4. What matters are purely _objective_? 5. What is meant by saying that an author has a _subjective_ or an _objective_ style? EXAMPLES. Subject therefore, denotes the mind itself; and ----, that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the thinking subject. Object is a term for that about which the knowing subject is conversant, ... while ---- means that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the object known, and not from the subject knowing; and thus denotes what is real, in opposition to what is ideal,--what exists in nature, in contrast to what exists merely in the thought of the
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