SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY 



THERE are at least two good reasons for studying 

 Huxley's essays in college classes his style and his 

 ideas. The editor does not wish to annoy the student 

 or teacher with numerous suggestions for the study of 

 either. What are here offered will perhaps serve as 

 points of departure for one who may feel somewhat at a 

 loss how to commence. The questions on style are 

 pretty conventional; they aim simply to bring out quali- 

 ties useful to students of composition. The questions on 

 thought do not inquire what Huxley's thought is, but 

 seek rather to extend its application to modern condi- 

 tions, to test its value or soundness, and to suggest similar 

 or different ideas which may be made subjects for 

 composition or class discussion. 



The content of each essay and the development of the 

 thought as a whole can best be brought out by making a 

 complete sentence outline of it. Such an outline should 

 commence with a summary of the whole essay in a single 

 complex sentence in which dependent clauses contain 

 subordinate ideas, and independent clauses, principal 

 ideas. The main topics should be similarly summarised, 

 and the points in development of them, and so on. 

 These sentences should be arranged in outline form with 

 appropriate symbols, I, A, i, a, etc., to indicate their 

 logical relations. This exercise, though difficult at first, 

 is valuable not only for the analysis of others' essays, but 

 also in developing logical processes of thinking, and in 

 furnishing models for outlines for original compositions. 

 Having made such an outline, the student can easily study 

 thf structure of the whole. 



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