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=15 and 16--Ex.=--A treaty between the two greatest nations of the earth, and loss of 10,000 men. A triumph of Peace and a triumph in War.

=16 and 17--Ex.=--The death of a multitude of soldiers and a birth in the highest family of the realm.

=17 and 18--Ex. and In.=--A birth and a death gives Ex. A royal birth with all the advantages it brings, and the advantage of the inheritance of great fortunes, makes a clear case of In.

=18 and 19--Ex. and In.=--Similar relations to those spoken of in the last paragraph.

=19 and 20--Ex.=--To the taxpayer the endowment of the Duke of Edinburgh might seem to be a burden imposed--and the abolition of imprisonment for debt below £20, would be looked upon as a burden removed. Here we have Ex.

As before suggested, let the pupil recite the foregoing ten events forwards and the reverse way several times from memory. And then let him similarly recite the entire twenty events.

=20 and 21--In.=--Favoring poor people--debtors and poor students--characterises both events.

=21 and 22--In.=--This college among other things prosecuted the study of Philosophy--"the complete unification of knowledge"--Faraday unified three elements.

=22 and 23--In.=--Light, heat and electricity arise from latency to manifestation--a physical birth--here, too, is the birth of an organism.

=23 and 24--In.=--Beginning of two careers--one of an individual and the other of a body of persons.

=24 and 25--Ex.=--Object and aims different--one was a promotion of science--new science--highest science--the other was reverence for old literature--greatest of all literatures.

=25 and 26--Ex.=--Liberal outlay of money in art circles--great scarcity in business.

=26 and 27--Ex.=--Anguish and suffering unallayed--pain neutralized.

=27 and 28--Ex.=--Suppression of individual feeling--society's outburst.

=28 and 29--In.=--Explosion of seething elements--a new nation--royal birth.

=29 and 30--In. and Ex.=--Nation protects Royal child--a foreigner seeks same protection.

=30 and 31--In. and Ex.=--Treaty between State and individual--treaty between States.

=31 and 32--Ex.=--Canal transportation comparatively safe--horseback riding liable to accidents.

=32 and 33--In.=--Farewell to life--farewell to stage.

=33 and 34--Ex.=--Close of one kind of exhibition and opening of another.

=34 and 35--Ex.=--Peaceful industries triumph--usurpation by intrigue and blood.

=35 and 36--Ex. and In.=--Beginning of one career and close of another--a trampler on laws; a respecter of them.

=36 and 37--Ex.=--Great General's death; royal birth.

=37 and 38--Ex.=--Life and choleraic deaths feared.

=38 and 39--In.=--Rebuke of religious zeal--dismissal for opinion's sake.

=39 and 40--In.=--A cleric dismissed and a war declared--"Intolerance" in both cases.

=40 and 41--In.=--Two declarations of war.

=41 and 42--Ex.=--Ravages of war contrasted with intellectual triumphs of peace--brute force and advanced thinking.

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