3. Compare Spinoza's theory of the relations between mind and matter either (a) with the doctrine of Occasionalism, or (b) with any recent speculation of a like kind that is known to you.

4. How does Leibniz state the principle of Sufficient Reason? And what is the importance of this principle in his system?

5. Trace Berkeley's argument from the nature of sensible ideas to 66 some other Will or Spirit that produces them," and estimate its validity.

6. Compare Hume's theory of Knowledge with Kant's assertion, in the Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason, of a priori elements of knowledge.

7. What was the nature and value of Reid's appeal to Common Sense in his philosophy of perception ?

8. Examine Kant's attempt to connect his Categories of Relation with his table of logical judgments.

9. Consider Kant's treatment, in his Transcendental Dialectic, of the argument from design.

MENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

Professor Laurie.

To be used as Honour Paper No. 2 for Second Year Students, and as Pass Paper No. 2 for Third Year Students.

1. On what grounds was it held by Kant that a science is needed to determine a priori the possibility, the principles, and the extent of human knowledge?

2. Examine Kant's affirmation of the empirical reality of Space, while maintaining its transcendental ideality.

3. What account is given by Kant of the "Anticipations of Observation"? Does the principle of these require any a priori element ?

4. What, in your opinion, is the connection between the principles of permanence, of causation, and of reciprocity, as applied to the material world?

5. What is Kant's critical solution of the Cosmological problem?

6. What, according to Kant, is the regulative principle of Pure Reason in its Cosmological Ideas?

7. On what grounds has it been held that the conception of a Supreme Being involves existence apart from the world? Add any comments.

MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

Professor Laurie.

1. It has been said that Socrates, in identifying the good with the useful or felicific, was returning to the doctrine of the relativity of morals which the Sophists taught, and against which he had protested. Explain the positions of the Sophists and of Socrates on this subject.

2. Compare the meanings attached to Justice in the Republic of Plato, and in the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.

3. What importance do you assign to Aristotle's doctrine of the mean? Was it regarded by Aristotle himself as a test which may be easily applied?

4. Explain the character of the Stoic cosmopolitanism, and the extent to which the Stoics recognised the duty of the individual towards others.

5. On what grounds has Benevolence been vindicated as a principle not to be resolved into a desire for personal pleasure? Refer to Butler's views on this subject.

6. Examine the statement that all imperatives of duty may be deduced from Kant's categorical imperative as from their principle.

7. Discuss the question whether Mill's appeal, for ethical purposes, to the quality as well as the quantity of pleasure is consistent with Utilitarianism.

8. Does a natural science of man furnish an adequate explanation of morality? Consider this question in connection with Spencer's account of the genesis of the moral consciousness.

9. How does the relativity of pains and pleasures affect the question whether pleasure is the ultimate end?

GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.-PArt I.

FIRST PAPER.

Professor Gregory.

FOR PASS AND HONOUR CANDIDATES.

A.-For Pass Candidates only.

1. Draw a geological section from a point 2 miles west of Ballarat to Bacchus Marsh, and describe the general structure of the country traversed.

(Data.-Distance from Ballarat to Bacchus Marsh, 34 miles. Altitudes: Bacchus Marsh, 340 feet; Ingliston, 1,500 feet; Gordons, 1,870 feet; Warrenheip station, 1,725 feet; Ballarat, 1,416 feet.)

2. Describe the following rocks, stating their mineral composition and petrologic structures :-Diorite, dolomite, trachyte, tachylyte, andesite, rhyolite, serpentine.

B.-For both Pass and Honour Candidates.

3. Classify rivers according to their origin. Describe the chief changes that take place in a river (a) when its mouth is lowered; (b) when its volume of water is increased; (c) when its volume of water is decreased; (d) when elevation takes place slowly along a line crossing the river.

4. What are faults? How are they caused? What are the chief kinds of faults? What effect have faults on the outcrop of strata?

5. Write a general account of the Cainozoic rocks around Geelong. Describe the conditions under which they were formed, and give reasons for this part of your answer.

6. Contrast the geological structure of the You-Yangs and the Dandenongs.

by a section across each.

Illustrate your account

C.-For Honour Candidates only.

7. Write an account of the volcanic history of the Ballaarat gold-field. Classify the basalts of this district, and describe especially the distribution of the lavas of Mount Buninyong.

8. Describe the following rocks, stating their constituents and rock structures :-Aphanite, granophyre, lherzolite, limburgite, norite, phonolite.