150 Questions and Topics for Study 



1. What are the two central thoughts in this essay (see 

 especially pages 38 and 44) ? 



2. What are some of the " great ideas " that you have ob- 

 tained from science (botany, physiology, physics, or chemis- 

 try)? 



3. How does Huxley use the " two fearful calamities " to 

 introduce the subject of this essay? 



4. Does the conclusion (page 45, line 27 to close) merely sum 

 up, or does it make an appeal, or does it do both? 



A Liberal Education: and. Where to Find It (pages 47-73) 



1. What two questions does Huxley endeavor to answer in 

 this essay (see especially pages 51 and 55) ? 



2. Memorize the answer to the first question as given in the 

 paragraph on pages 54-55. 



3. Where did Huxley think a liberal education could be 

 found ? 



4. If you do not play chess, see if you cannot substitute 

 some game that you do understand in place of the metaphor 

 employed in the paragraph on pages 51-52. 



5. What is the subject discussed in the introductory part of 

 this essay (see end of page 50 and beginning of page 51) ? 

 How do these introductory remarks lead up to the essay 

 proper ? 



On a Piece of Chalk (pages 74-102) 



1. What is the great lesson which, 'after much deliberation* 

 (page 76), Huxley endeavors to teach by a piece of chalk? 



2. How does he show (i) "that we have as strong grounds 

 for believing that all the vast area of dry land, at present 

 occupied by the chalk, was once at the bottom of the sea, 

 as we have for any matter of history whatever" (pages 88- 

 89); (2) "that the chalk sea existed during an extremely 

 long period" (page 92); and (3) "that the earth, from the 

 time of the chalk to the present day, has been the theater of a 

 series of changes as vast in their amount, as they were slow 

 in their progress" (pages 95-96)? 



3. What is the purpose of the introductory part of this 

 essay? 



4. With what striking comparison does Huxley close the essay? 



