55 ***....... ELOQUENCE:- PAGE Modern ...... Ought Sir George Grey's Prison Parliamentary .................... 32 Ministers Bill to become Law ? EPOCH MEN: Affirmative .. 465. Negative .... 466 James Watt-The Utilization of Steam THE ESSAYIST: 161, 241 A Happy New Year ... EUROPEAN PHILOSOPAY: In Memoriam MDCCCLXI........ ... 133 The Logic of Aristotle ............ Study and Self-Formation, Practical MODERN LOGICIANS. NO. IV.: Hints on ................214, 277, 369 The Right Hon. Sir G.C. Lewis, Bart. 401 | Advertisements .. ... ....... 282 282 Proverbs ........ ...... 376 HISTORY: Is the Character of Ignatius Loyola THE POETIC SECTION:worthy of Admiration and Re Poetic Critique .................... 443 spect? Change .............. 450 Affirmative Articles ......33, 111, 196 Life, Two Scenes of ..... 447 Negative Articles..........42, 118, 201 Menie, In Memorian) .. 447 Miller, In Memory of the late Hugh 445 PHILOSOPHY:Is an Age of General Intellectual THE REVIEWER: Culture unfavourable to the De Aird, Poetical Works of .. 238 velopment of Great Men ? & Revised Translation of the New Affirmative Articles ..25, 105, 191, 349 Testament ..................... 59 Negative Articles......29, 109, 194, 353 Arithmetic, The Art and Application of 298 Bible Geography, C. Baker's ..... 222 RELIGION: Biography, its Lessons, &c..... 63 Was the Pentateuch written by Moses? Christ or Colenso? .... 150 and is it Historically True? Clongh, A. H., Poems ..... 59 Affirmative Articles 11, 91, 177, 253, 336 Colenso's Second Volume, Reply to.. 385 Negative Articles ..20, 99, 188, 260, 344 Collected Papers. Mrs. Grote's .. 245 Essays, S. F Williams' 220 POLITICS: Gravenhurst, Wm. Smith's .......... 289 Is the Permanent Connection of the Hunt, Leigh, Correspondence of .... 63 Colonies with the Mother Country Irving, Life and Letters of Washington 382 desirable ? Locke, Joseph, Life of ...... 146 Affirmative Articles ..46, 123, 264, 355 Macaulav, Public Life of Lord ...... 452 Negative Articles ....49, 126, 266, 359 Meliora ................ 385 Mills's Utilitarianism .... 459 SOCIAL ECONOMY: Organic Nature, Huxley on our KnowAre Bands of Hope, as at present con ledge of .... stituted and conducted, generally Remains, A. H. Hallam's ........ 292 beneficial? Romans, J. H. Hinton's Exposition of 463 Affirmative Articles ......208, 269, 362 Rough Diamonds, J. Hollingshead's 64 Negative Articles ........212, 273, 365 School, The Primary ... ......... 150 Universe, A Glance at. N. Odgers' .. 222 THE TOPIC: Whately's Lectures and Reviews .... 456 Ought the Cotton Districts to depend for Relief on Private Alms or THE SOCIETIES' SECTION: PAPERS, &c.:- Celebrities of Royal Society, Edin burgh .... .................. 7 preferable to Transportation ? Debating Societies, Lord Moncrieff Affirmative .. 151. Negative .... 151 Ought Gibraltar to be ceded to Spain ? “Punch," C. Shirley Brooks on .. 312 Affirmative .. 223. Negative .... 224 Is it desirable to Probibit by Law the REPORTS:- Bristol Atbenæum....... Dunblane Mut. Imp. Association .. 235 Affirmative .. 302. Negative .... 305 Edinburgh, Associated Societies of.. 232 Was the Character of the Rejoicings Edinburgh, Parkside Y. Men's Asso 315 on the Occasion of the recent Edinburgh, Royal Society of ...... 71 Royal Marriage worthy of the Edinburgh, St. John's Free Young Age? Men's Association .............. 394 Affirmative .. 387. Negative .... 389 Faversham Institute............. 395 300 "........ National Bou165. Negati system .............. 312 Mut. Imociation Cerary as 105 ... , Poetica" PAGE 1 PAGB THE INQUIRER (continued): - Q. A. One Book, The Man of .. 391 468 309 311 Persic Words ....... 229 228 228 229 23 54 230 Reformation, D'Aubigné's Soul, Immortality of ....... Q. A. Speakers in Public, Nervous 70 310 391 468 Thorwaldsen...... 229 230 Virgil, Translations of ..... 9 311 309 Warren Hastings.......... 70 229 OUR COLLEGIATE COURSE:- Arithmetic ......71, 156, 236, 316, 396, 471 Bookkeeping ..... ...........236, 317 French ........ 78, 158, 237, 318, 398, 472 ..78, 157, 236, 317, 397, 471 German ........79, 159, 238, 318, 398, 472 Greek .79, 159, 23, 318, 399, 473 History ........78, 157, 237, 317, 397, 471 Latin ..........79, 159, 238, 318, 399, 473 Literature ......78, 167, 237, 317, 397, 471 Logic ..........78, 158, 237, 317, 397, 472 Rhetoric........ 78, 158, 237, 317, 397, 472 308 LACONICS .................. 132, 442, 464 .......... 77 310 70 CONTRIBUTORS SIGNATURES. PAGB 288 : 132 M. H. 20, 45, 55, 99, 207, s.n.10,90,176, 262, 335, 415 .123, 268 Tib .... 214, 442 Touchstone ........29, 358 Norval .... 365 W.G. ........ 382 ... 191 | R. M. William ..... ......... 276 6 X ..................... 194 ...58, 2601 J. & W. Rider, Printers , 14, Bartholomew Close, London, E.C. CONTROVERSIALIST, AND LITERARY MAGAZINE: DEVOTED TO THE IMPARTIAL AND DELIBERATE DISCUSSION OF IMPORTANT QUESTIONS IN RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIAL ECONOMY, ETC., AND TO THE PROMOTION OF SELF-CULTURE AND GENERAL EDUCATION. 65, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXIII. PREFACE. To inquire after Truth is the proper duty of man. Investigative activity of mind is, therefore, that characteristic which each ought most sedulously to cultivate. Doubt does not indicate a healthy state of intellect. Slothful aversion to thought, much more frequently than honest truth-seeking, results in that suspense of judgment commonly called Scepticism. 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