Woman's suffrage should be established.
5. The regular party nominee should not always be supported.
EXERCISES
Give reasons for or against the following:--
1. We should abolish class-day exercises.
2. The study of science is more beneficial than the study of language.
3. Foreign skilled laborers should be excluded from the United States.
4. Hypnotic entertainments should not be allowed.
5. The study of algebra should not be made compulsory in a high school.
6. _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ should be excluded from school libraries.
7. Physical training should be compulsory in public schools.
8. High school secret societies should not be allowed.
+Theme CXIII.+--_Write an argument of expediency using
one of the subjects named in the preceding exercise._
(What advantages have you made most prominent?
To what feelings have you appealed?)
+Theme CXIV.+--_Write a narration in which the hero is called upon to
decide whether some course of action is right or wrong_.
(Consider the theme as a narration. Does it fulfill the requirements of
Chapter IX? (See Summary.) Consider just the arguments used. Are the
arguments sufficient to bring conviction to the reader that the hero
decided rightly?)
+203. Refutation.+--No question is worth argument unless there are two
sides to it--unless there is a chance for some doubt in the mind of the
hearer as to which side seems most reasonable. Many questions are of such
a nature that in trying to convince our hearers of some truth, we often
find it necessary to show them, not only the truth of a proposition or the
expediency of a course of action, but also the falsity of some opposing
proposition or the inexpediency of the opposite course of action.
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