PLATONIC QUESTIONS. BY R. BROWN, M.L. 1. Why did Socrates act the midwife’s part, rather than the parent’s? in other words, why did he prefer to develop in the minds of others the germs of knowledge, rather than communicate knowledge to them? 425-427. 2. Why does Plato call the supreme God the Father and Maker of all things? 428, 429. 3. What does Plato, in his Republic, mean by dividing the universe into unequal parts? and of the sections, thus made, which is the greater, the Intelligible or the Sensible? 429-432. 4. Plato always says that the Soul is elder than the Body, and the cause and principle of its rise. Yet he also says that neither could the Soul exist without the Body, nor the Reason without the Soul, but the Soul in the Body, and the Reason in the soul. How can this be explained? 432. 5. Since geometrical figures and solids are contained, partly by Rectilinears and partly by Circles, why does Plato make Isosceles Triangles and Triangles of unequal sides the Principles of Rectilinears, &c.? 433-435. 6. Why does Plato say that the nature of a Wing participates most of the Body of God? 435. 7. In what sense does Plato say that the Antiperistasis, or Reaction, of Motion, is the cause of the effect, in using cupping-glasses, in swallowing, in throwing of weights, in the use of the loadstone, &c.? 435-438. 8. What does he mean in the Timaeus when he says that Souls are dispersed into the Earth, the Moon, and into other instruments of time? Is the Earth, is the Sun, an instrument of time? 438-441. 9. Did Plato, in his Republic, place the Rational or the Irascible Faculty in the middle chord of the human faculties? 441-444. 10. Why did he say that Speech is composed of Nouns and Verbs? 444-449. Because they are the principal elements, _ib._ PARALLELS, OR A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORIES. BY JOHN OSWALD, M.A.