Sfi Sodcf!/ of the Scie)ices at Fluskujg, 



benefit of particular histories. But as it appears necessar)' 

 to the society that the compass of this fertile subject should 

 be treated in melhotlical order, for the purpose of avoiding 

 confusion and needless prolixity, and that not only a proper 

 distinction should be made between the sciences and tine 

 arts, but that a proper distribution of them should be pre- 

 viously established, according to which the society may 

 propose its annual questions : and as it appears also that 

 several men of letters who have written on the division of 

 Jiterature, science, and the fine arts, which, according to 

 the opmion of the antients, are so intimately connected 

 with each other, evidently differ, the society considers it 

 lieccssary first to propose the following question : — Is there 

 any connection between the sciences and the fine arts ? Is 

 it possible to separate them from each other, and to distri- 

 bute and arrange both in a regular series ? What is the best 

 order, and at the same time the best adapted to make the 

 literary history of the various branches of the sciences and 

 line arts serve as materials for prize questions ? 



II. As the Pythagorean philosopher, ApoMonius of Ty- 

 ana, lias, by many of the pagan and other writers, been 

 placed in the same rank with our blessed Saviour Jesus 

 Christ, the society requires to know : " What real or pro- 

 bable information is to be obtained in regard to this man? 

 And what proofs of the truth of the evangdical writings can 

 bedtdnced from a comparison of the accounts given us of 

 Apnllonius by Philostratus and others, and of Jesus Christ 

 by the evangelists ; together with a comparison of the ex- 

 ternal relation of these writers? 



I I I . As the bloody feuds known under the name of Hoekseh 

 and Kaleljaauwseh form the principal part of the early history 

 of this country, and as different opinions have been enter- 

 tamcd in regard to various circumstances relating to them, 

 the society wishes for a more satisfactory account of the 

 origin of these two parties. Was it not earlier than the 

 destructive quarrel between Margaret of Ilenncgau and her 

 son William V? What gave occasion to the appellations 

 Hoeksfh and Kaheljntuuvseh P Is the real etymology of these 

 words established, and what was the principal object of these 

 parties €rom tiieir origin to the time when they became ex- 

 tinct? 



Th.e answers, written in the Dutch, Latin, or French 

 language-s, but in a legible hand, must be transmitted, 

 scaled up in the usual manner, to A. Dryfhout, the se- 

 cretary, at IvJiddleburghj before the periods above an- 

 uouiiced. 



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