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Caption: Course Catalog - 1889-1890
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82 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC The studies of this department require much maturity of powers and are therefore confined to the senior year. Mental philosophy. Analysis and classification of mental phenomena; theories of perception, consciousness, imagination, memory, judgment, reason. Mental physiology, or connection of body and mind, healthful condition of thought, growth and decay of mental and moral powers. Philosophy of education, theory of conscience; nature of moral obligation; moral feeling. The right. The good. Practical ethics; duties. Formation of character. Ancient schools of philosophy; modern schools of philosophy. Influence of philosophy on the progress of civilization, and on modern sciences and arts. Principles of logic; conditions of valid thinking; forms of arguments; fallacies and their classification. Inductive and deductive reasoning; principles and methods of investigation. Practical applications of logic in the construction of arguments, in the detection and answer of fallacies, and the formation of the habits of thinking and common judgment of life. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Studies of the School.—In the arrangement of the studies the endeavor is to present a thorough and extended drill in grammatical and philological study, and in the authors and history of the English language, affording a training equivalent to the ordinary studies of the classical language. This drill extends through three years of the course. The first two terms of the first year are given to a general survey of the whole field of British and American literature from the middle of the sixteenth century to the present time. All the representative writers come into notice, and representative specimens from the writings of each are carefully read in class. Moreover, each student is required each term to read an entire work of some classic author, making choice from a prescribed list. Frequent ex-
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