ments; while the lowest savage can be measurably educated, civilized, and christianized.

93. Up to a certain limit they are roughly similar; beyond that the human mind possesses a range of thought and feeling to which beasts show no sort of approach.

94. In his natural depraved state, man's habits are roughly similar; he eats and sleeps, cares for offspring, makes war on his foes, etc.; yet, his great mental and spiritual endowments make it certain that the main object in man's creation is to glorify his Maker and obtain an eternal reward.

95. The framework of man's thought, his experience, his comparisons, and his ingenuity.

96. It is one-sixteenth less than that of men.

97. That every age, race and condition has been marked by the hope of an existence reaching beyond this life into another and a better one. 98. A belief in the immortality of the soul.

99. Mind is the intellectual or rational faculty in man, the power that conceives, judges, and reasons; the soul is the spiritual and immortal part in man, which renders him a subject of moral government.

100. Life, animate and inanimate, is that principle in an animal or plant which gives capability for the exercise of its functions. What is that principle is a question that has been asked for ages. The mystery of Life, around which evolve the facts and theories of the reciprocal relation and preservation of Forces; "light, heat, electricity, magnetism, motion, and chemical affinity" is now a question undergoing thorough scientific investigation. [See Botany for Bioplasm and Protoplasm.]

101. Animate or Animal Life has sense and motion; Inanimate or Vegetable Life simply grows, reproduces its kind and dies.

102. He has a reasoning faculty, an immortal principle, and a moral sense, or a mind, soul, and conscience.

103. A total or permanent cessation of one form of life. Strictly speaking there is no such thing as death. Death of plants or animals is simply a change of condition. Thus the teachings of religion and the conclusions of science beautifully harmonize.

1. State the origin or great first cause of all things.

2. What honor belongs to the great Prussian astronomer Copernicus?

3. What were Kepler's three laws?

4. What important discoveries did Galileo make?

5. Who discovered the law of universal gravitation?

6. Of what is the Solar System composed?

7. How much larger is the sun than the earth? How far distant?

8. To how many of our moons is the sun's light equal?

9. What produces the heat of the sun?

10. When and by whom were spots on the sun first discovered?

11. What are the spots seen on the sun?

12. What phenomena is presented by the sun during a total eclipse?

13. What are planets, what are stars, what are satellites?

14. Where is Mercury located, and what is its comparative size?

15. What are the distinguishing features of Mercury?

16. How is Venus located, and what are its peculiarities? 17. Has Venus any Moons, and when is it brightest?

18. What is the comparative size of Venus; its diameter? 19. What is the distance of the earth from the sun?

20. What is the length of the earth's orbit?

21. What are the eight motions of the earth?

22. What remarkable feature in the motion of our satellite, the moon?

23. The moon being opaque, explain how it gives light.

24. What are the dark and luminous streaks and spots on the moon?

25. How long exactly is it from one new moon till another new moon? 26. What causes an eclipse of the sun?

27. What curious phenomena regarding the moon attends a total eclipse? 28. What is the distance of the moon from the earth; its diameter ?

29. What is meant by the Harvest, and what by the Hunter's moon?
30. Explain the phenomena of the moon's rising, being retarded nearly
one hour during what is termed the Harvest Moon?

31. Does the surface of the moon undergo any perceptible change?
32. What effect has the moon upon the earth and its inhabitants?
33. Where is Mars located, and what are its distinguishing features?
34. Describe Phoebus and Deimos, satellites of Mars?

35. Where are the asteroids, and what are they supposed to be?
36. Where is Jupiter located, and what are its peculiarities?

37. What is Jupiter's diameter and distance from the sun and the earth? 38. What are Jupiter's comparative size and velocity; how many moons? 39. What is known of the condition of Jupiter?

40. Where is Saturn located and what its distinguishing features?

41. What is Saturn's distance from the sun and from the earth?

42. What is his comparative size, and the period of revolution?

43. What feature belongs to Saturn different from any other planet? 44. How many moons has Saturn, and what are their names?

45. Where is the planet Uranus located?

46. What is the distance of Uranus from the sun; the earth; its diameter;

its comparative size and velocity?

47. How many moons has Uranus, and what peculiarity have they?

48. Where is Neptune located?

49. How far distant is Neptune from the sun; from the earth; what its

comparative size and velocity?

50. How many moons has Neptune?

51. What are the motions of a comet, and how many have been found?

52. How many periodic comets are there, and which two are the most

remarkable?

53. What is the head of a comet composed of, and what the tail?

54. What are meteors and (what) shooting stars?

55. How are stars arranged, and how many can we see?

56. How do we find the North or Pole star?

57. Which is the largest and brightest of all the stars within our horizon? 58. What sustains the planets in the heavens?

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59. What is the probable course of the Stellar System as regards progres60. What is the Milky Way, what is Nebula?

61. What is the Nebular hypothesis?